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‘Where these cells come from’: SLCC honors a woman who changed medicine and bioethics

Scholars and experts pay tribute to Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were the basis of decades of research.

(Teresa Chaikowsky | SLCC's The Globe) Dr. Richard Ferguson, founder of Black Physicians of Utah and chief medical officer at Health Choice Utah, stands in front of a portrait of Henrietta Lacks – an African American woman whose cancer cells were the source of the “HeLa” cell line – on Dec. 5, 2023, for an event at Salt Lake Community College's Taylorsville Redwood campus, called “Someone You Knew, the Story of Henrietta Lacks.”