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Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks
(1 August 1920 – 4 October 1951; sometimes erroneously called
Henrietta Lakes
,
Helen Lane
, or
Helen Larson
) was an
African-American
woman who was the unwitting source of
cells
from her
cancerous
tumor
which were
cultured
by
George Otto Gey
to create the first known human
immortal cell line
for
medical research
. This is now known as the
HeLa
cell line.
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