Tag: Henrietta Lacks


January 30, 2009

The Story of Henrietta Lacks: A Lesson in Biology and Ethics

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Henrietta Lacks was only 31 years old when she died on October 4, 1951. But thanks to one of the more shameful, yet at the same time scientifically beneficial, episodes in the history of medical science, cells from the tumor that killed her grow today in laboratories all over the world. Henrietta Lacks' [...]

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