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    There was a woman whose cells are bred in culture dishes in labs all over the world; a woman whose cells were so prolific that there is more of her now, in terms of biomass, then there ever was when she was alive. She died at the age of 31. Who was she?

    Question #15102. Asked by Alpendene. (Dec 18 01 10:59 PM)


    The M in Jam

    		She was Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951.

    http://www.jhu.edu/%7Ejhumag/0400web/01.html

    Dec 19 01, 12:31 PM

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