Skloot, Rebecca.
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Skloot, Rebecca.
Summary: Henrietta Lacks died from cervical cancer at the age of 31. Before her death, doctors culled cells from Henrietta, cultivating the first set of 'immortal' cells ever, and used them to engineer breakthrough cancer treatments, the polio vaccine, and other crucial medical and scientific advancements. Henrietta's family, though, never knew any of this until twenty years after her death and never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 0000
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Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010