In 1951, wife and mother of five, Henrietta Lacks was only 31 when she died of cervical cancer in the 'colored' ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Not long before her death, without her knowledge or consent, doctors removed some of her tumor cells and sent them to Hopkins' researcher, Dr. George Gey. Gey had been trying […]
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