He was motivated by his extreme curiosity to locate the woman responsible for donating the cells known as immortal HeLa cells. Michael Rogers was a writer who had a penchant for scientific fiction and nonfiction, particularly that nonfiction that was on the "cutting edge."
Biogenetic cell culturing was just getting started, and Rogers was busy chasing an elusive story about the cells named HeLa cells, taken from a real woman known only as "Helen Lane." ...
He was motivated by his extreme curiosity to locate the woman responsible for donating the cells known as immortal HeLa cells. Michael Rogers was a writer who had a penchant for scientific fiction and nonfiction, particularly that nonfiction that was on the "cutting edge."
Biogenetic cell culturing was just getting started, and Rogers was busy chasing an elusive story about the cells named HeLa cells, taken from a real woman known only as "Helen Lane." The real woman turned out to be a young mother named Henrietta Lacks, who, after having several children, contracted an extremely aggressive form of cervical cancer. Dr. George Gey, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, cultured both the cancer cells, as well as normal cells, which became the cells known as "HeLa cells."
Michael Rogers was a scientific writer who stood out, as he wrote and pursued stories that were ahead of his time. His pursuit of the Lacks family in this story was for the purpose of providing more solid detail about the woman whose cells had gained a sense of immortality.
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