_______________________________________________________________________________________________Cell Biology – Module 1

Resource B - Worksheet

Use the following to create a timeline of events during and after Henrietta’s life.

2017 – TV Movie screened on HBO

1920 – Born Loretta Pleasant in Virginia, USA

1942 – Married David ‘Day’ Lacks

Jan 1951 – Biopsy taken and cells sent to George Gey

Feb 1951 – HeLa cell line created

Oct 1951 – Henrietta died of cervical cancer, John Hopkins University Hospital

2010 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot released

1953 – HeLa cells cloned successfully

1986 – HeLa cells used to study HIV

1971 – Henrietta publicly identified as the source of HeLa cells

1952 – HeLa cells used to make polio vaccine

1952 – Tuskegee Institute opens 1st HeLa cell factory

1993 – HeLa cells used to study tuberculosis

1984 -HeLa cells used to prove HPV causes cancer.

1973 – HeLa cells used to study salmonella

2013 – Lacks family give approval to genomic data