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Organoids are 3D cell cultures that self-organize into organ-like structures. See how they are grown, what they have taught us, and why they are not tiny organs.

Henrietta Lacks' cells, taken without consent in 1951, became the first immortal human cell line. HeLa cells helped develop the polio vaccine, cancer treatments, and IVF. Her family learned this 25 years later.