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Deborah Lacks
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An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Deborah Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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Zakariyyah

Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

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Sadie

Dr. George Gey

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Barbara Lacks

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