Advanced Professional Seminar

CREATIVE PRACTICE 1

The Skloot interview brought about new awareness and questions to ponder. While a thousand attempts were made to reproduce the human cell and failed what made Henrietta Lacks different? The discussion regarding the birth of the Hepatitis vaccine formed from the blood of a person with hemophilia also was intriguing as I am a recipient of that vaccine. After reviewing both of these cases, I started thinking about red blood cells and liver functions and began drawing red circles to represent cells. My cells grew into a cluster of grapes. However, Henrietta Lacks cells may one day grow into a cure for cancer.