{"id":707,"date":"2023-02-18T19:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/henrietta-lacks-the-immortal-cells-that-changed-the-world-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:34:53","slug":"henrietta-lacks-the-immortal-cells-that-changed-the-world-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/henrietta-lacks-the-immortal-cells-that-changed-the-world-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrietta Lacks: The &#39;immortal&#39; cells that changed the world &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgB1IqGp8BE?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Baltimore, USA, died of cancer. However, cells taken from her body without her knowledge continued to grow and multiply even after her death. They became the first &#8216;immortalised human cell line&#8217; and changed medical science forever.<\/p>\n<p>HeLa cells have helped to create cancer treatments, vaccines and have even furthered our understanding of space travel. Now, 100 years on from Henrietta&#8217;s birth, her immortal cells are helping researchers develop a Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Daniel John<br \/>\nAnimations by Lily Baker<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pgB1IqGp8BE\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Baltimore, USA, died of cancer. However, cells taken from her body without her knowledge continued to grow and multiply even after her death. They became the first &#8216;immortalised human cell line&#8217; and changed medical science forever. HeLa cells have helped to create cancer treatments, vaccines and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secret-worlds","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}