Henrietta Lacks
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Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. Wikipedia
Born: August 1, 1920, Roanoke, VA
Died: October 4, 1951 (age 31 years), The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Spouse: David Lacks (m. 1941–1951)
Children: Deborah Lacks, Elsie Lacks, Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman, and more
Parents: Eliza Lacks Pleasant and John Randall Pleasant
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