The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

What happened to the HeLa cells that Mary cultured?

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Mary, an assistant in Gey's lab, put Henrietta's normal cells in a chicken-blood culture. The cancer cells grew with astonishing  speed. Within 24 hours the amount of Henrietta's cancer cells doubled. 

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