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Discover the remarkable story of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells were taken without her knowledge and later used for several scientific breakthroughs.
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by Linda Villarosa onOctober 2, 2010
Recent revelations that the U.S. government knowingly infected Central Americans with syphilis in the 1940s have eerie echoes to the infamous 40-year experiment with 400 infected black men in Macon County, Ala. As it turns out, this is no coincidence.
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