The Way of All Flesh
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~52 minute BBC clip follows the story of the cells of Henriettta Lacks. She died in 1951 of cancer, before she died cells were removed from her body and cultivated in a laboratory in the hope that they could help find a cure for cancer. The cells (known as the HeLa line) have been growing ever since, and the scientists found that they were growing in ways they could not control.
















