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Jacqueline Ronson

HISTORICAL FACTS: How henrietta lacks immortal hela cells transformed medicine | History Defined


By the time Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five, died of cervical cancer in 1951 at the age of 31, she had already achieved a sort of immortality.

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