Modern Times

The Way of All Flesh (1997x4)

Date de diffusion: Mar 19, 1997

Follows the story of the cells of Henriettta Lacks. She dies in 1951 of cancer, before she died cells were removed from her body and cultivated in a laboratory in the hope that they could help find a cure for cancer. The cells (HeLa) have been growing ever since, and the scientists found that they were growing in ways they could not control.