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Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [ 1 ] was an African-American woman [ 4 ] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [ A ] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
Aemilia Scaura (82 BC), daughter of the Roman patrician Marcus Aemilius Scaurus. Cornelia (69 BC), wife of Julius Caesar, mother of Julia, who also died in childbirth. Julia (54 BC), daughter of Julius Caesar and fourth wife of Pompey. Tullia (45 BC), daughter of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
born Francesca Isabel Natividad, Mexican actress; died of kidney failure at age 74. diagnosed in 1999 at age 51. [50] Alla Nazimova. (1879–1945) born Marem-Ides (Adelaida Yakovlevna) Leventon, Russian-born American actress; survived breast cancer, but died due to a coronary thrombosis at age 66. diagnosed in 1936 at age 57.
Marie Curie. She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two sciences. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie[ a] ( Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( / ˈkjʊəri / KURE-ee, [ 1] French: [maʁi kyʁi] ), was a Polish and naturalised -French ...
Marcheline Bertrand. 1950 – 2007. American film actress; mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven. Diem Brown. 1980 – 2014. American reality TV star ( The Real World and Road Rules; died at age 34, nine years after diagnosis) [10] Márcia Cabrita. 1964 – 2017.
Dr. Donald Payne. . . ( m. 1981; died 1981) . Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network newscast alone ...
Ariel Glaser (1981–1988) Jake Glaser (b. 1984) Elizabeth Glaser ( née Meyer; November 11, 1947 – December 3, 1994) was an American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. She contracted HIV very early in the AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving ...
Pregnant women are at high risk from the virus, which can lead to fetal death. 'The baby could have died': Mom-to-be has pregnancy complications from parvovirus infection