Hyderabad: In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish in the 20th century. Lacks’ cervical cancer cells, called ‘HeLa’ after the first two letters of her first and last name, are immortal, […]
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