Johns Hopkins naming research building after Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks was unknowingly one of the world's biggest contributors to science. Cells extracted from Lacks in 1951 as the young African-American mother lay dying of cervical cancer have lived on in research labs for decades, The Baltimore Sun reports. Until the publication of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" in 2010, her family was largely unaware that her cells were u sed in research labs around the world to learn how cancer cells react to viruses poisons and drugs. They also played a…
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