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The woman whose cells changed medicine forever — and never knew it | Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old mother of five who died of cancer in 1951. Doctors quietly took cells from her tumor — the first human cells to survive and keep dividing outside the body. Her cells, called HeLa, have been used in over 110,000 medical discoveries. She's never been a household name. This is her story.
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