HeLa Reflection Paper Content
Book: The immortal Life of Herrietta Lacks
Guidelines:
Three pages MAX, single-spaced, 1-inch margins.
Write in complete sentences and paragraphs.
Read the following articles and use them plus the Henrietta Lacks initiative website to answer the questions below:
Jonathan J. M. Landry, et al. 2013. The Genomic and Transcriptomic Landscape of a HeLa Cell Line. G3: GENES, GENOMES, GENETICS. 3(8): 1213-1224. Hela paper #1
Adey, A, et al. 2013. The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploid HeLa cancer cell line. Nature. 500: 207211. HeLa Paper #2
Henrietta Lacks Initiative
What has happened since the publishing of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? What was the impact of these two articles (why are they significant?). What types of legislature or recommendations have been made as a consequence of this book and awareness of the use of human samples? (1-2 pgs)
What are your personal feelings after reading the book? Did you like it, why or why not? What did you learn? Did anything that you learned in particular surprise you? (1 pg)
