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\n"Her name was Henri etta Lacks\, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern toba cco farmer\, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture\, they are still alive today\, though she has been dead for mor e than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine \; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses\; helped lead to in vitro ferti lization\, cloning\, and gene mapping\; and have been bought and sold by t he billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her famil y did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after he r death\, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent."-- Provided by publisher.
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