It’s Henrietta Lacks Day in Maryland. On this day in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was born. At the age of 30, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and in January 1951 she was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the few major hospitals that treated “coloreds.” Researchers were astonished that Lacks’ cells (named HeLa using […]
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