Since some cancer cells of a woman brough scientists  the breakthrough medicine for a hundred years, as polio vaccines prevention, cancer treatment, flu …

In a microbiology laboratory at Columbia University, New York, USA, the experiments of Professor Vincent Racaniello some cells has brought the great breakthroughs in medicine a hundred years. But this is not normal cells. They called Hela cells.

By ABCnews, Thanks to a person did this, scientists have researched to find rooms polio vaccines, drugs for the treatment of cancer, flu and Parkinson’s disease and in studying and mapping the gene cloned . It is also used to check radiation levels of the atomic bomb and sent the space outside the atmosphere.

All the so-called Hela cells, billions of billions of cells, are derived from a person, Henrietta lacks, an African-American women 30 years old unhappiness, died nearly 60 years ago.

“What people reached by these cells is thought to be impossible” Rebecca Skloot, author of the book Life of Henrietta lacks any kill for.

1951, lacks the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, the United States for cancer of the cervix. Before her death, doctors have taken a number of tumor cells for research without telling her that.

And scientists have discovered surprised when these cells can do what they have never seen before: they still live and continue to multiply.

One year after the death but lacks her cells continue to live, providing a source of cells seems endless for research around the world and then the company for sale.

More than 20 years, no one in the family lacks the know about this. Was first notified in the 1970s, they were really surprised and angry. While companies make billions by selling these cells, the family of her really poor.

Until they know about medicine achievements have been achieved thanks to the cell her anger has turned into pride.