today's fascinating person is Henrietta Lacks.
when she died, a person doing the autopsy took a unauthorized sample of the cancer, and sent it to a lab to get it looked at. it never died. it continues to divide and grow to this day.
it contributed to the cure of polio.
the amount of HeLa cells, as they are known, outweighs her original mass many times over.
they have disrupted other studies because they got into the samples.
she lives forever.
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