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    Coyotegal posted an update Monday, Jul 11, 2011, 11:37pm EDT, 14 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    This is probably old news to many of you, but it was a new one for me and some other folks. It's an NPR interview from last year. The link is the paragraph below:

    Henrietta Lacks, a poor African-American woman and mother of five, never knew that she revolutionized medicine. Shortly before she died of cancer in 1951, doctors took a tissue sample from her — without her permission. Those cells became the first human cells to gain "immortality" — replicating themselves in laboratories long after Henrietta Lacks died. Host Guy Raz talks to science journalist Rebecca Skloot about her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

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