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Henrietta Lacks was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall to scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. No one knows why, but her cells never died.

they have been grown, divided up, shipped around the world, frozen.
They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to cells in zero gravity. Many scientific landmarks since then have used her cells, including cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. They were the first human cells to be cloned.
It is thought that there are about 20 tons of Henrietta Lacks cervical tumour cells in existance, such is the nature of the cells that a case may be made for them to be defined as a distinct species


Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: Homo sapiens
Subspecies: Homo s. gartleri

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How strange and fascinating. Thanks for putting it up Mary.

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Yes, thanks for posting about this.

this is fascinating. I guess we have her to thank for the birth of bioethics. Apparently her immortal cells are used today in many drugs that save people lives on a daily basis. Sadly Henrietta was not immortal and died leaving behind small children.

Oprah's doing a HBO movie about her that i can't wait to see.

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Without knowing too much about the details, one would wonder if they could unlock what allows the immortality, if that might shed light on what causes cancer in the first place?
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