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George Gey was a Johns Hopkins researcher in the medical labs at Johns Hopkins in the mid-20th century. He was determined to discover an immortal human cell that would enable him and others to perform experimentation and research on of various diseases. Eventually, he found such cells from a patient with a lethal form of Cervical cancer called Henrietta Lacks. The cells were named HeLa (the first two letters in Henrietta Lacks' first and last names). These cells thrived in his labs, and their colonies are used around the world for developing treatments and vaccines to many potentially harmful entities present within our natural world today.

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