In 1951, Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital seeking treatment for cancer — never imagining her story would rewrite medical history. 🏥💫 Doctors took a small sample of her cells without her knowledge… and what they discovered changed the world. 🧬🌈

Her cells — now known as HeLa cells — became the first to live and reproduce endlessly outside the human body. From those cells came countless medical breakthroughs: the polio vaccine, cancer treatments, AIDS research, and even studies that reached outer space 🚀💉🌍.

Yet behind every scientific triumph was a woman — a mother of five, a soul full of life, whose name the world forgot for decades. 💔🌺

Today, we remember Henrietta not as an experiment, but as a symbol of strength, sacrifice, and the silent legacy of one woman who unknowingly gave humanity the gift of life. ❤️🌹