Well ladies I hear that Saints won didn't get a chance to check them out oh who am I kidding I'm not a football fan, just in it for the snacks and as you know we are in a recession so you know the snacks here were chips and dips so I decided to stay home and enjoy a nice peaceful day doing what I like the most African American research and I did find out some interesting facts which I will share at a later time but for now here's a little something for the ladies to ponder and after you read this it should make a sistah see just how strong we are even in death
This is an amazing story.
In 1951, cells from a 30 y/o woman suffering from cervical cancer were harvested, without her knowledge, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The "HeLa" cells became the first line of human cells to survive and thrive outside the human body.
Medical scientists used them to change medical history. The cells were used in the discovery and development of the Polio vaccine.
Amazingly, these cells are still alive today and no one knows why!
More astonishing, for years the HeLa cell donor was a mystery.
Until now.
The donors name is Henrietta Lacks (hence the cell name: HeLa).
She was part of a Black family in southern Virginia who were tobacco farmers. The Lacks family still lives there.
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