List of Famous people with last name Lacks

Henrietta Lacks

Loretta Pleasant
First Name Henrietta
Born on August 1, 1920
Died on October 4, 1951 (aged 31)

Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.

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