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Upon arrival at the research facility, Henrietta’s cells, dubbed “HeLa” cells for her first and last name, proved to be extraordinary. Where other cells would die, HeLa cells would multiply.

The Woman Behind A Medical Miracle: Henrietta Lacks

American exceptionalism would not allow for this story to be told, that is, the story of Henrietta Lacks. Her life began in a shack in Roanoke, Virginia, now, what her mother, Eliza Lacks Pleasant, did not know was that she had just birthed a medical marvel. It would be decades later that Henrietta’s genetic code would prove to be most astonishing.

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