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henrietta lacks

Published Oct 6, 2018

Her HeLa cell line has been critical to numerous medical breakthroughs; her story has inspired important discussions of bioethics, patients' rights

Published April 27, 2017

Movie, which began airing last weekend on HBO, was screened five times on two JHU campuses

Published April 18, 2017

Johns Hopkins leaders send message about upcoming HBO film about life of Henrietta Lacks

In memoriam

Published Aug 3, 2015

He oversaw Johns Hopkins research that led to first successful in vitro fertilization of human egg

Published Aug 8, 2013

Cells collected from Johns Hopkins patient in 1951 paved way for medical advances including polio vaccine, chemotherapy, in vitro fertilization