profited from it, and never gave you credit? In Rebecca Skloot’s biography, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, we see the story of Henrietta Lacks, the woman behind the revolutionary HeLa cell. The story of Henrietta Lacks is one that is rather unknown, but the effect her cells had on the medical field is something known worldwide that has helped with an abundance of discoveries, therefore helping lots of people. Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and had the cancerous…
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