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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans,
Rebecca Skloot • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
first immortal human cells. To which they replied, Can I have some? And George said yes.
Rebecca Skloot • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Late in the era of the syphilis experiment, doctors discovered that rather than bad blood, Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer and mother of five, had magical cells, so hardy that they were labeled immortal. In 1951, Lacks visited Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore complaining of vaginal bleeding. While she was undergoing treatment for
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