51: She’s in OUR DNA?! Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Dark History
The Emotional Roller Coaster of Polio
In 1976, out of the blue, Henrietta Lax's husband picks up the phone and the emotional roller coaster begins. "Could you imagine the roller coaster of emotions you'd be going through if that's what you thought the scientists were doing? And you thought your wife or your husband, your partner is still alive?" Researchers really wanted more cell samples from the family because they knew that Henrietta's cells were something special.
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