FEATURE: In 1951 a poor woman's cells were taken without permission, and they revolutionised medicine

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 04:32 in Health & Medicine

Henrietta Lacks' immortal cells are one of the most important and prolific tools in medicine, used in developing the polio vaccine, cloning and gene mapping.

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