Henrietta Lacks made an amazing contribution to medical research which has only recently been recognised. Rob and Georgina discuss her remarkable story.
This week's question:
Do you know what other medical breakthrough happened in 1921? Was it...
a) the discovery of insulin?
b) the discovery of penicillin?
c) the discovery of vitamin E?
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
in vitro fertilization
technique for women who cannot become pregnant naturally in which an egg is fertilized outside her body and the resulting embryo replaced in her womb
figure out
understand or solve something; work out
workhorse
someone who does a large amount work, especially dull or routine work
scourge
something that causes much trouble or suffering
unwitting
done without knowing or planning
centenary
the 100th anniversary of an important event
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