If honey is not organic that means that bees were using the flowers with pesticides. Organic beekeeping is the beekeeping practiced in clean environment, without intensive agriculture, use of synthetic feed and chemicals harmful for the bees.
Thereâs no way of knowing exactly how many of Henriettaâs cells are alive today. One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, theyâd weigh more than 50 million metric tonsâan inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.
Cancer and virus research and immortal HeLa cells The history of human tissue cell culture began with Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman from Baltimore, who died from a highly malignant cervical cancer in 1951. Despite radiation and surgery, her tumor spread rapidly. Within eight months she was dead, at age 31.