Who is George Otto Gey?
A friend of Henrietta
The person who cultured the HeLa cell line
Henrietta's Husband
A famous Cancer researcher
Answer
George Otto Gey, an American cell biologist and physician, is renowned for his groundbreaking achievement in culturing the HeLa (Henrietta Lacks) cell line. This cell line, derived from a cervical cancer patient's tissue in 1951, became the first immortalized human cell line capable of continuous growth in laboratory conditions.
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