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