The 'Immortal' Story Of One Woman's Cells
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks' 'immortal cells' — cells taken from a tumor on her cervix and kept alive to multiply in laboratories around the world — and how Lacks' children discovered their connection to the cells.
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