Henrietta Lacks is another great woman. Before her death in 1951, her doctor took and saved several tissue samples from her cervix without her permission or knowledge. From these cells came the world’s first “immortal cell line”. It is also known as the HeLa cell line. Her cells have been used to develop everything from cloning to the Polio vaccine. They have been used to develop cancer drugs, drugs to treat HIV, herpes, Parkinson’s disease, and hundreds of others. Scientists have grown more than 20 tons of her cells, and they’re involved in more than 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.
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