Summary from the “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 93 to 136. After Henrietta's death for a while, there is a plane for Hela cells factory. There have a problem is polio epidemic in the end of 1951.NFIP contacts with Dr.Gey for help. Jonas Salk has developed the polio vaccine, but he does not test it. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) doing testing and it costs a lot of money so they ask Gey for help. Henrietta’s cells are the best one for experiments. Gey sent the HeLa by mail it. Most cells are alive. NFIP knows it they want HeLa for polio’s test and a factory is built at Tuskegee. Henrietta’s cells are very useful. A factory is established to produce HeLa for selling by Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent. HeLa is out of Gey’s control. He does not want Henrietta’s name to leak out, but it is a near-correct name in the Minneapolis Star. Gey creates the pseudonym to journalists instead of real name. After Henrietta’s funeral, Day works two jobs and Lawrence drops out school to help his father, but he is grafted by the Korean War. Ethel takes care of Henrietta’s children. She abuses them. Galen tries to touch Deborah physically. When she tells her father that, Day does not believe her. After that, Deborah does not talk this again and avoid meeting Galen alone. Rebecca goes to see Cliff, and then he brings her to Henrietta’s grave. In the family’s cemetery, Cliff tells her about the history of Henrietta’s family. Sotham uses HeLa to test what cause the cancer. He injects HeLa into patients, volunteers’ bodies without telling them that is a cancer research. There is a law to restrict the formal research in the United States.
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