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Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant) was born in what year?

Ms Lacks died in what year?

What type of cells were the source of the HeLa cell line

Cells from an immortalized cell line will?

Ms Lacks was treated here?

Cells were cultured by whom?

Ms Lacks occupation?

Ms Lacks was told her condition was?

Ms Lacks actual condition was?

HeLa cells in a laboratory setting has led to many important breakthroughs in biomedical research. For example, by 1954, Jonas Salk was using HeLa cells to develop a vaccine for?

In what decade a large portion of HeLa cells became contaminated by other cell cultures?

Neither Henrietta Lacks nor her family gave her physicians permission to ?

A historical marker memorializing Henrietta Lacks is in?

A podcast was released by this group concentrating on HeLa

HeLa was described by Leigh Van Valen as an example of the contemporary creation of a new

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