"On October 4, 1951, an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer.
Samples of her cervical cancer cells were extracted by Dr. George Otto Gey. To his amazement and horror, Henrietta Lacks's cervical cells multiplied readily and rapidly, faster than anything ever seen."
http://revelationawaitsanappointedtime.blogspot.com/2009/10/henrietta-lacks.html
