Here’s a question to ponder this evening and it involves a relatively famous woman named Henrietta Lacks. She passed away back in 1951, but in her 31 short years on this planet, she made a remarkable contribution, even if she didn’t know it at the time. A book was written about her life and it was later made into a movie starring Oprah Winfrey. Back in the fifties, she was being treated for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins. Doctors removed some cells from a tumor in her body for study. The cells turned out to be remarkable and became known in the industry as HeLa cells for their ability to be endlessly reproduced. They would later be used in many medical breakthroughs.Read More
Do you own your own cells and DNA?
