Category: Medical Research in General

• November 25, 2023

  The Significance of Henrietta Lacks

  

  Figure 1– This is an image of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman responsible for the HeLa cell line, the first immortal cell line. Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Henrietta lived until 1951, when she died at 31 years old. [1]  Who was Henrietta Lacks? For…