Guest Speaker

When we had a guest speaker discussing her experience of the HeLa cells it was really interesting to find out about medical opinion of the HeLa cells. Dr Srivastrava told us how she works with the cells often, she referred to them as a daily ‘bread and butter’ implying that it’s a common practice to use them. When she found out about the cells from an article, she said she forwarded it to her colleagues as it was something really shocking for her and she didn’t know about it. 

We learnt about the cells and she talked about different uses of the cells and other medical information to help us develop more knowledge of things that can help us better understand the cells. I found learning about this interesting as even though I didn’t choose biology as my science choice, learning more about the body and different things that are involved.