BBCNEWS BBC News October 14, 2021 03:10:00
To trawl through thousands of satellite pictures to see how many herds of the mammals they can spot. the world health organization has held a ceremony to honour henrietta lacks, an african american woman who died in1951, for her enduring contribution to medical science. cell samples from mrs lacks, taken without consent, became the first ever to survive and multiply outside the human body. aru na iyengar reports. henrietta lacks was my grandmother. my grandmother was a black american woman who was born on august 1, 1920, in roanoke, virginia to eliza and johnny pleasant. the ceremony at the wo...