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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the enfranchisement of women in America, Preservation Maryland and Gallagher, Evelius & Jones LLP has created Ballot & Beyond, an audio biography series on the contributions of Maryland's remarkable women, past and present.
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Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, was written by Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, Professor of English at Morgan State University. The reader is Dr. Newson-Horst.
Henrietta Lacks is best recognized for her immortal HeLa cell line (named for the first two letters of her first and last names).
Since her death in 1951, her cells divide again and again and rebuild after each division. It is because HeLa cells can be grown continuously in labs, researchers started to rely heavily on them for their experiments.
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