Movie: Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

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Fred Garrett
Fred Garrett

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George Gey
George Gey

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Howard Jones
Howard Jones

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Mary Kubicek
Mary Kubicek

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Deborah Lacks Pullum
Deborah Lacks Pullum

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Walter Nelson-Rees
Walter Nelson-Rees

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Roland Pattillo
Roland Pattillo

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Roland Pattillo
Roland Pattillo

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Sadie Sturdivant
Sadie Sturdivant

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Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

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    In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.

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    1997-03-19

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