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Son of tobacco farmer helps students with research of his mother's cells
Abby Brownback/The Gazette David Lacks, son of the late Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used in 1951 to create the first immortal line of human cells for scientific and medical research, speaks May 2 to about 200 Oxon Hill High School students who are studying his mother and her impact on science for a class project.