Iar \u00een cele dou\u0103 decade scurse de-atunci, nimeni nu se ostenise s\u0103 spun\u0103 familiei ce carier\u0103 spectaculoas\u0103 f\u0103cuser\u0103 celulele recoltate din tumoarea femeii.<\/p>\n
Av\u00e2nd capacitatea de a se \u00eenmul\u0163i “ca buruienile”, celulele botezate “HeLa” deveniser\u0103 vedetele laboratoarelor de farmacologie, ne l\u0103mure\u015fte Rebecca Skloot \u00een “Via\u0163a nemuritoare a Henriettei Lacks”. Reproduc\u00e2ndu-se la 24 de ore, celulele HeLa ajunseser\u0103 iute “cobaii” ideali pentru testarea de noi medicamente pentru lucemie, grip\u0103, Parkinson, poliomelit\u0103 etc. T\u0103iate m\u0103runt, celulele erau bombardate cu toxine, radia\u0163ii \u015fi viru\u015fi, \u00een speran\u0163a g\u0103sirii unor tratamente eficiente.<\/p>\n
Toate bune \u015fi frumoase, numai c\u0103 descenden\u0163ii Henriettei n-au \u015ftiut vreme \u00eendelungat\u0103 la ce folosesc celulele recoltate f\u0103r\u0103 \u015ftirea lor (e drept, \u00een anii ’50, legea nu-i obliga pe medici s\u0103 cear\u0103 consim\u0163\u0103m\u00e2ntul pacien\u0163ilor pentru “\u00eemprumutarea” buc\u0103\u0163ilor de \u0163esut). \u00cen plus, producerea pe band\u0103 de celule “HeLa” a constituit, pentru un timp, o afacere frumu\u015fic\u0103, f\u0103r\u0103 ca cineva s\u0103 pl\u0103teasc\u0103 “drepturile de autor”.<\/p>\n
Cine a fost \u00eens\u0103 Henrietta Lacks? Aproape zece ani i-au trebuit Rebecc\u0103i Skloot ca s\u0103 intre sub pielea urma\u015filor ei. Dezgustat\u0103 de jurnali\u015ftii senza\u0163ionali\u015fti, familia Lacks \u015fi-a deschis cu greu sufletul. Poate \u015fi pentru c\u0103 \u00een\u0163elegea cu greu miza acelor inginerii “voodoo” ale geneticii – fiul, de pild\u0103, era convins c\u0103 “celulele mamei o s\u0103-l fac\u0103 pe Stevie Wonder s\u0103 vad\u0103”.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Skloot, un reporter cu fler, spune povestea amar\u0103 a Henriettei \u015fi a urma\u015filor ei marginaliza\u0163i, pentru a reface, \u00een paralel, traseul celulelor umane care au revolu\u0163ionat medicina secolului XX. O istorie pe c\u00e2t de fascinant\u0103, pe at\u00e2t de sinuoas\u0103, marcat\u0103 de \u00eencurc\u0103turi etice, atitudini rasiste \u015fi zvonuri alarmiste cu hibrizi \u015fi clone.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Skloot – “Via\u0163a nemuritoare a Henriettei Lacks”, Editura Pandora M, Bucure\u015fti, 2012<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Henrietta tr\u0103ie\u015fte? N-avea nicio logic\u0103. \u00cei v\u0103zuse el \u00eensu\u015fi cadavrul la \u00eenmorm\u00e2ntare. O dezgropaser\u0103? Sau \u00eei f\u0103cuser\u0103 ceva \u00een timpul autopsiei?”, se \u00eentreba \u00een anii \u201870 Lawrence, unul dintre fiii “nemuritoarei” Henrietta Lacks. Trecuser\u0103 deja dou\u0103 decenii de la moartea Henriettei (1951), o t\u00e2n\u0103r\u0103 afro-american\u0103 din Virginia ucis\u0103 de un cancer cervical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7194],"tags":[7193,23595,31876,31877],"class_list":["post-78016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carte","tag-carte","tag-editura-pandora-m","tag-rebecca-skloot","tag-viata-nemuritoare-a-henriettei-lacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91319,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78016\/revisions\/91319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}