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Play Sound Using techniques that HeLa helped develop, scientists can now take a piece of a person's cornea and grow it in a dish to help treat blindness.
Using techniques that HeLa helped develop, scientists can now take a piece of a person's cornea and grow it in a dish to help treat blindness.

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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