The Woman Who Opened the Doors to Immortality
While death is the greatest truth of our lives, humanity has been searching for immortality for thousands of years. But what evolution has offered us is death itself, and we don't seem to be able to defeat it.
But a person's fingerprint is biologically embedded in their cells, in their DNA. And a woman named Henrietta Lack gave us immortal cells. Those cells killed her but kept humanity alive.
Today, in this video, we tell the story of HeLa cells and how they were used in polio, space exploration, nuclear testing, and all kinds of vaccination efforts.
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00:00 Introduction
00:36 Support
00:46 Henrietta Lacks' Cancer
02:50 Immortal HeLa Cells
04:41 HeLa's Science
06:37 Polio, HIV, Space
08:38 Where is the Ethics?