“Meet the woman who became immortal… without ever knowing it. She was a young Black mother of five, a tobacco farmer from Virginia. In 1951, she went to Johns Hopkins Hospital with cervical cancer. During her treatment, doctors took a sample of her tumor cells… without her knowledge or consent. They sent them to a lab. Most cells die in a dish. Hers didn’t. Her cells became HeLa — the first ‘immortal’ human cell line. They doubled every 24 hours and never stopped. Thanks to Henrietta, we got the