The Smithsonian Acquires Striking Portrait Of Henrietta Lacks, The Mother Of Modern Medicine
Born in rural Virginia in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman who was diagnosed and died of aggressive cervical cancer at the youthful age of 31. Without consent from Henrietta and her family, doctors at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore collected her cancer cells, which were discovered to be immortal. Widely known as the […]