Overview

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.

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Cast

Fred Garrett

George Gey

Howard Jones

Mary Kubicek

Deborah Lacks Pullum

Walter Nelson-Rees

Roland Pattillo

Roland Pattillo

Sadie Sturdivant

Adam Curtis