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Henrietta Lacks – Woman Crush Wednesday!

Mar 17, 2023 · 7m 56s
Henrietta Lacks – Woman Crush Wednesday!
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This is the most important person we’ve ever featured on a Woman Crush Wednesday. Henrietta Lacks was a cancer patient in the early 1950s. Her cancer cells were studied, analyzed,...

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This is the most important person we’ve ever featured on a Woman Crush Wednesday. Henrietta Lacks was a cancer patient in the early 1950s. Her cancer cells were studied, analyzed, and found to be “immortal” under laboratory conditions. They formed the famous “HeLa” cell line, the first immortalized cell line, which helped create the polio vaccine and hundreds of other medical advances. But the story is more complex than that.
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Author Dr. Joseph Coohill
Organization Joe Coohill
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