WHO HONORS HENRIETTA LACKS, WOMAN WHOSE CELLS SERVED SCIENCE
Oct 16, 2021
2 minutes
The chief of the World Health Organization honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s and ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs, including research about the coronavirus.
The recognition from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came more than a decade after
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