MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry August 11, 2013
Diagnosis. Cervical cancer, an especially aggressive form of the disease that despite radiation and surgery would have taken her life for months. That would have been where the story ended. Somewhere in the hospital Henrietta Lacks lived on, at least some of her did. Before henriettas death her doctors to a sample of her tissue to study inside a test tube. When they looked closely, they discovered something unusual for cells. Hers not only survived but thrived and multiplied in the live. In fact, henriettas cells were so resilient they were replicated again and again and again in laboratories ...