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More than 2,000 attend screenings of Henrietta Lacks film
Published July 28, 2017
Movie, which began airing last weekend on HBO, was screened five times on two JHU campuses
Film highlights important issues, history
Published July 28, 2017
Johns Hopkins leaders send message about upcoming HBO film about life of Henrietta Lacks
In memoriam
Howard W. Jones Jr., pioneer in reproductive medicine, dies
Published July 28, 2017
He oversaw Johns Hopkins research that led to first successful in vitro fertilization of human egg
Lacks family reaches deal on use of genetic material
Published July 28, 2017
Cells collected from Johns Hopkins patient in 1951 paved way for medical advances including polio vaccine, chemotherapy, in vitro fertilization