For anyone interested, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a really good read, although rather uncomfortable for those of us who had worked with HeLa (I remember being told they were from "Helen Lane", which was clearly a fudge to obfuscate the uncomfortable racial aspect)

It's even more gross than that article suggests, as she got really shitty treatment because she was poor and black, and then they had the nerve to just harvest her cells as well.

The lighter note was that she got a bit of revenge from the afterlife - all these scientists in the 70s were getting very excited about the spontaneous transformation of their cell lines to this convergent phenotype, thinking they'd discovered some fundamental new process of cancer and puffing out their chests - but it turned out nope, they just had shitty sterile technique in their tissue culture labs and all their cell lines had been cross-contaminated and outgrown by HeLa and their research was worthless.