Ethical questions in research have been a constant subject of discussion in academia and the media, be part of the daily practice of any researcher. Rebecca Skloot researched for 10 years the story of Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old girl who died in 1951, a victim of cervical cancer. (Skloot, 2013). This may not have been as relevant were it not for two important facts: the first is that Henrietta cells generated Henrietta's family members in Baltimore. The author did not anticipate that a telephone call would be the starting point of a trajectory of a decade by scientific laboratories, hospitals, psychiatric institutions, with a large cast of characters. Because of the eagerness to seek answers about the origin of the cell culture and ethical conflict, Rebecca noticed that it slowly and eventually became part of that story.