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 a Roanoke native who passed away in 1951 at 31. Her cells, known as HeLa cells, lived on and aided in the development of numerous
