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.
HeLa cell: One of the cells grown from the cervical cancer of a young African-American woman, Henrietta Lacks. HeLa cells were the first human cells to be continuously grown in culture. The cells were first cultured in February 1951 by Drs. George and Margaret Gey at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The cells appear immortal and are still used in medical research today.