By Shewanda Riley The story of Henrietta Lacks, a Virginia mother whose cells have transformed medical research for over 70 years, is both amazing and heartbreaking. Cells taken from her body without her consent during her treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins University in the 1950’s have proven to be the most medically viable cell line. A 2010 book and 2017 HBO movie about Lacks once again stirred interest in her story and that of the family that she left behind when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Her cells have a unique biological makeup that allow them
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