New vaccines, cell-culture techniques, and the technology to grow stem
cells in a petri dish were all invented because of HeLa.

Researchers were able to create new vaccines, cell-culture techniques,
and the technology to grow stem cells in a petri dish because of HeLa.



Gene sequencing, for example, has emerged as a great new frontier, but
brings with it the baggage of genetic privacy, as was discovered by the
Lacks family in 2013.

Gene sequencing, for example, has emerged as a great new frontier, but
brings with it the baggage of genetic privacy, as the Lacks family
discovered in 2013.



But the fact that this technology fused different species was alarming.

But the fact that this technology fused different species alarmed the
public.



The prohibition wasn't institutionalized like informed consent, but
mouse-human hyrbids still held stigma.

Medical organizations didn't institutionalize this prohibition like
informed consent, but mouse-human hybrids still held stigma.