In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, USA. Her name is Henrietta Lakes. These are cells from your body. They were taken shortly before her death. Since then, they have grown and multiplied.
There are now billions of these cells in labs around the world. If folded, they would weigh 400 times their original weight. These cells transformed modern medicine, but they are also embroiled in the politics of our time. They shape the politics of the country and the president. They were even embroiled in the Cold War because scientists believed their cells held the secret to defeating death.
“It’s not like a normal crab. It’s different, it doesn’t look cancerous. It’s purple and bleeds easily to the touch. I’ve never seen anything that looks like it and I don’t think I Since then, “I’ve never seen anything like that, so it’s a very special kind of, well, it turned out to be a tumor. – Dr. Howard Jones, Gynecologist.
