Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research ... Her story has been told in a best-selling book — and now an awesome middle school rap video.

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 ...

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Henrietta Lacks. It’s a name most of us don’t recognize or see in history books. Born in Roanoke, she died at 31 from cervical cancer but her cells were essential in finding a polio vaccine ...

But our ability to research, treat and prevent many diseases would not the be the same without Henrietta Lacks, an ordinary woman who unknowingly sparked a scientific breakthrough when a sample of ...