Henrietta Lacks
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title:
Henrietta Lacks
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Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day. Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Ho
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African-American woman (1920–1951), source of HeLa immortal cell line
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
date created:
2003-09-22T11:49:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:45:12Z
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