Skloot, Rebecca
Summary: Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LACKS, HENRIETTA SKLSkloot, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Skloot, Rebecca
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, 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. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 SKLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Black SklootSkloot, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 616.0277 LACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LACKS, HENRIETTA SklSkloot, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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Winfrey, Oprah
Summary: Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017