Radiolab Extra: Henrietta Lacks

Radiolab

• Episode: Radiolab Extra: Henrietta Lacks
• Website: Radiolab
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab
• Duration: 00:35:13
• Published: 2017-04-19 04:00

With all the recent talk about HBO's upcoming film, we decided it would be good time to re-run our story of one woman's medically miraculous cancer cells, and how Henrietta Lacks changed modern science and, eventually, her family's understanding of itself.

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