HeLa and the Development of Polio Vaccine

"She used to take care of me when my polio got bad. She always did say she wanted to fix it. She couldn't help me cause I had it be...

HeLa cells were taken from Henrietta Lacks, and have been used for countless research projects.

Jonas Salk used HeLa cells in his research when developing a vaccine for polio.

Polio is a contagious disease caused by an intestinal virus that may attack nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms include fever...

Henrietta's cells were given the name   HeLa   using the first two letters of her first and last name. In 1954, three years after Mrs. L...

Children waiting to receive the polio vaccine polio line Little boy with Polio collecting for the Polio Building Fund polio boy J...

When Jonas Salk developed a vaccine, he needed to test it on a huge scale to ensure its safety. These tests involved the inoculation of 2 mi...