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Radiolab Extra: Henrietta Lacks
Episode 244
Published 8 years, 11 months ago
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With all the recent talk about HBO's upcoming film, we decided it would be good time to re-run our story of one woman's medically miraculous cancer cells, and how Henrietta Lacks changed modern science and, eventually, her family's understanding of itself.
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