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"From a clinical point of view, Mrs. Lacks never did well.... As Charles Dickens said at the beginning of [A] Tale of Two Cities,' It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' But it was the best of times for science in that this very peculiar tumor gave rise to the HeLa cell line... For Mrs. Lacks and the family she left behind, it was the worst of times. Scientific progress and indeed progress of all kind is often made at great cost, such as the scarifice made by Hernietta Lacks"--------Written by Howard Jones