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Henrietta Lacks
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- The Chief of the World Health Organisation honoured the late Henrietta Lacks with the Director-General award.
- She is an American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s.
- The cells provided the foundation for vast scientific inventions, including research about the coronavirus.
- The ‘HeLa’ cell line, derived from the first two letters of Henrietta Lacks, helped in the development of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines.
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