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Summary: Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. We are born without...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 0000