Genome sequencing & the Special Case of Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks died in Johns Hopkins University Hospital in 1951 of an aggressive cancer. In itself that was not a remarkable event except for close friends and family but Mrs Lacks was not going to be forgotten and for a very special reason.

At that time cancer research was just starting to find ways to grow cancer cells to use to work on and to try to find information that

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