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Definitions of lacks in various dictionaries:
noun - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
verb - be without
verb - to be without
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| Plural form of lack. |
| Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lack. |
| the state of being without or not having enough of something. |
| be without or deficient in. |
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Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line will reproduce indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. As was then the practice, no consent was obtained to culture her cells, nor were she or her family compensated for their extraction or use. * Lacks grew up in rural Virginia. After giving birth to two of their children, she married her cousin David "Day" Lacks. In 1941 |