Rebecca Skloot
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Henrietta Lacks: How Her Cells Became One of the Most Important Medical Tools in History
There isn’t a person reading this who hasn’t benefitted from Henrietta’s cells, code named HeLa, which were taken without her knowledge in 1950. When I first called Henrietta’s daughter Deborah Lacks with hopes of writing a book, I had no idea how deep the story actually ran—that ...read more