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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Adventurer & Explorer Biographies Whether it's buying localHenrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid century biology: human cells that could survive even thrive in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency