Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells revolutionized medical research, is honored with a wax figure at Morgan State ...
In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...
The immortal cells can grow and divide indefinitely, thus enabling a multitude of innovative and life-saving studies on human ...