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5. Discuss the medical breakthroughs from HeLa cells. Have your attitudes or ideas towards medical research changed in any way due to reading this book? Henrietta’s cells have been used for numerous studies and there have been many medical breakthroughs because of it. Her cells have been exposed to toxins, infections, zapped by radiation and have been used to test for diseases. Scientists in 1952, used “HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine” (Skloot, 333). A year later they were then cloned. Her cells were used to create the first animal hybrid cells. In addition in 1957, “The term “informed consent” first appears in court documents” (Skloot, 334). It doesn’t state that because of HeLa that informed consent appeared in court documents

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