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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

How One Woman’s Cells Changed Scientific Thinking Forever

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Rebecca Skloot’s book presents an eye opening account of the life and afterlife of a woman, and how she had unwittingly changed the face of medical research. Henrietta Lacks was a poor Black woman, whose cancerous cells were extracted without her knowledge, and used for research. It soon grew int...

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    Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’s NOVAscienceNOW and is a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine and guest editor of The Best AmericanScience Writing 2011. Her work...

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