A Conspiracy of Cells

A Conspiracy of CellsA Conspiracy of Cells presents the first full account of one of medical science's more bizarre and costly mistakes. On October 4, 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. That is, most of Henrietta Lacks died. In a laboratory dish at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, a few cells taken from her fatal tumor continued to liveto thrive, in fact. For reasons unknown, her cells, code named "HeLa," grew more

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