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Hace 5 días · Henrietta Lacks was an American woman whose cervical cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, research on which contributed to numerous important scientific advances, such as drugs used to treat polio, Parkinson disease, and leukemia. Learn more about Henrietta Lacks in this article.
Hace 5 días · Streaming Video: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Boasting an exceptional cast and production team, and based on Rebecca Skloot’s critically acclaimed 2010 nonfiction best-seller of the same name, this HBO Films drama tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, an African- American woman ...
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Hace 3 días · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks combines the true story of a poor black family in the mid- twentieth century and the course of scientific discovery, as cellular technology unfolds in the laboratories.
Hace 4 días · Esta semana una jueza federal emitió fallo que permite a los familiares de Henrietta Lacks continuar la demanda contra la farmacéutica. Henrietta Lacks fue una mujer afroamericana que murió, en 1951, a los 31 años, de cáncer cervical y cuyas células tumorosas fueron extraídas —clandestina, pero legalmente— de su cuerpo, aún en vida ...
Hace 5 días · The family announced a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. last year. Lacks’ story was told in a 2017 television movie starring Oprah Winfrey, based on the 2010 book entitled The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
Hace 5 días · Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Baltimore County, Maryland, was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital for cervical cancer in the 1950s. Without her knowledge, doctors cut out cervical tissue ...
