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Did you know? Henrietta Lacks was a poor Black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Her doctors took — without permission — cells from her tumour. Those "HeLa" cells turned out to be immortal and have since been used in hundreds of thousands of studies — from the polio vaccine to covid. Her family only received recognition decades later.

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Henrietta Lacks was a poor Black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Her doctors took — without permission — cells from her tumour. Those "HeLa" cells turned out to be immortal and have since been used in hundreds of thousands of studies — from the polio vaccine to covid. Her family only received recognition decades later.

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