Henrietta Lacks Research Paper

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During the twentieth century, the word had known many unprecedented inventions and discoveries that had radically shaped our way of life. The field of discovery that touched human’s life the most, was the medical field. One of the most important achievements in science that opened the doors to many other scientific discoveries was the seccefull culture of the first human cells in laboratory. Those cells were named HeLa. HeLa cells were taken from the cervical of a black woman in Charles Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, where she went to trait cancer. The women name is Henrietta Lacks, a poor and uneducated women and a mother of four kids. She died, in 1951; soon after her doctor discover the cancer in her body, but her cells stayed immortal until

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