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Play Sound NEWSCASTER: Known as "HeLa," this cell strain. has since been given to laboratories around the world. Used by doctors and scientists to perform experiments and research, starting with Dr. Salk's polio vaccine.
NEWSCASTER: Known as "HeLa," this cell strain. has since been given to laboratories around the world. Used by doctors and scientists to perform experiments and research, starting with Dr. Salk's polio vaccine.

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Description: 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.
Written by: Rebecca Skloot, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo

Director: George C. Wolfe

Production: Harpo Films, Cine Mosaic, HBO Films

Release date: 22 Apr 2017