{"id":10937,"date":"2021-06-15T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10937"},"modified":"2021-06-15T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:48:46","slug":"carleton-biology-lab-renamed-and-bursary-established-in-honour-of-henrietta-lacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/carleton-biology-lab-renamed-and-bursary-established-in-honour-of-henrietta-lacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Biology Lab Renamed and Bursary Established In Honour of Henrietta Lacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1951, a 31-year-old Black mother of five named Henrietta Lacks was in medical distress and went to Baltimore\u2019s Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite treatment, she passed away eight months later. Unbeknownst to Lacks or her family, cells retrieved during a biopsy were sent to a tissue lab, where researchers made a remarkable discovery: unlike similar cell samples, which died quickly, Henrietta\u2019s cells doubled every day.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past seven decades, these so called \u201cHeLa cells\u201d have continued to multiply. They\u2019ve been used in more than 75,000 studies around the world, helping scientists \u201cstudy the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones and viruses on the growth of cancer cells without experimenting on humans,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/henriettalacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says the Johns Hopkins website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/henrietta-lacks-biology-lab-bursary\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1951, a 31-year-old Black mother of five named Henrietta Lacks was in medical distress and went to Baltimore\u2019s Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer. Despite treatment, she passed away eight months later. 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