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SYSK Selects: How HeLa Cells Work

Stuff You Should Know • July 08, 2017

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, after she was diagnosed with the cervical cancer that shortly killed her, a tissue sample was taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951 without her knowledge. Those cells would go on to become the first immortal line of human

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