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Oprah Winfrey gestures to a portrait of Henrietta Lacks at a screening of her film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, at the African American History Museum in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. (Photograph by Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)

Oprah, Henrietta Lacks family screen ‘Immortal Life’ at African American History Museum

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This undated microscope image made available by the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research shows HeLa cells. Until these cells came along, whenever human cells were put in a lab dish, they would die immediately or reproduce only a few times. Henrietta Lacks' cells, by contrast, grew indefinitely. They were &quot;perpetual, everlasting, death-defying, or whatever other word you want to use to describe immortal,&quot; says Dr. Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. (National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research via AP)

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Family plans to seek compensation for Henrietta Lacks’ cells

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