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⏲ Duration: 16 min 40 sec
✓ Published: 04-Dec-2012
✓ Published: 04-Dec-2012
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. How can something so wrong bring about so much good?nn“When people ask – and seems like people always be askin to where I can’t never get away from it – I say, Yeah, that’s right, my mother name was Henrietta Lacks, she died in 1951, John Hopkins took her cells and them cells are still livin today, still multiplyin, still growin and spreadin if you don’t keep em frozen. Science calls her HeLa and she’s all over the world in medical facilities,
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. How can something so wrong bring about so much good?nn“When people ask – and seems like people always be askin to where I can’t never get away from it – I say, Yeah, that’s right, my mother name was Henrietta Lacks, she died in 1951, John Hopkins took her cells and them cells are still livin today, still multiplyin, still growin and spreadin if you don’t keep em frozen. Science calls her HeLa and she’s all over the world in medical facilities,
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