>The World Health Organization (WHO) has honoured an African-American woman whose cells have led to crucial medical breakthroughs
>Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco grower, died aged 31 in 1951 of cervical cancer and samples of her cells were collected by doctors without her or her family's knowledge.
They were the first living human cells to multiply outside the human body.
They have been used in research that led to the polio vaccine, gene mapping and IVF treatment.
These and other advances have resulted in Henrietta Lacks being named the "mother" of modern medicine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58903934
That's setting low standards, but then again the media gave credit to Salk, a lab assistant and not the two men who got noble peace prices for curing Polio.
>Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco grower, died aged 31 in 1951 of cervical cancer and samples of her cells were collected by doctors without her or her family's knowledge.
They were the first living human cells to multiply outside the human body.
They have been used in research that led to the polio vaccine, gene mapping and IVF treatment.
These and other advances have resulted in Henrietta Lacks being named the "mother" of modern medicine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58903934
That's setting low standards, but then again the media gave credit to Salk, a lab assistant and not the two men who got noble peace prices for curing Polio.
