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The woman that never dies (The mysterious woman (died from a tumor,…
The woman that never dies
Hela cells grow without a limit
weigh 50 billion kilograms, spanning more than 350 million feet
The mysterious woman
died from a tumor
Henrietta Lacks
the owner of the world's first immortal human cells--HeLa cells
controversy
take Henrietta's cell without her and her family's permission
Ebony
Henrietta's husband didn't allow the doctors to take his wife's cells
Jet
the family felt exploited
The HeLa cells
bought, sold, packaged, and shipped to laboratories around the world
went up in the first space mission
great dedication in medicine
polio vaccine
chemotherapy
cloning
gene mapping
vitro fertilization
contribution
Hela cells reproduce an entire generation every 24 hours
first immortal human cells ever grown in a lab