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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: How Henrietta Lacks' Death Changed Medical History
Description: The scientist couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Every other sample of cells he’d seen died quickly in his lab, but these cells, from a poor Black woman, doubled every 24 hours! He had to get more of them – at any cost.
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