Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman, whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line will reproduce indefinitely.
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Henrietta Lacks | |
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 Henrietta Lacks circa 1945–1951 | |
| Born | Loretta Pleasant August 1, 1920 Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | October 4, 1951 (aged 31) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Monuments | Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School; historical marker at Clover, Virginia |
| Occupation | Housewife, Tobacco farmer |
| Height | 5 ft (150 cm) tall |
| Spouse(s) | David Lacks (1915–2002) m. 1941 |
| Children | Lawrence Lacks Elsie Lacks (1939–1955) David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. Deborah Lacks Pullum (1949–2009) Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman (born Joseph Lacks) |
| Parent(s) | Eliza (1886–1924) and John Randall Pleasant I (1881–1969) |
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