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JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES By Melissa Noel· Updated December 22, 2022

A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose “immortal” cells have led to countless medical breakthroughs, will be built in her birthplace of Roanoke, Virginia, according to ABC News.

Lacks was

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