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Famed for “Immortal” Cells, Henrietta Lacks is Immortalized in Portraiture

8/21/2018

 
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Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine by Kadir Nelson (detail, above) is on view at the National Portrait Gallery through November 4, 2018. (NPG, NMAAHC, gift from Kadir Nelson and the JKBN Group LLC)
Lacks’s cells gave rise to medical miracles, but ethical questions of propriety and ownership continue to swirl.
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