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“Reads like a novel...Deftly crafted...Henrietta Lacks comes fully alive on the page.”
—Eric Roston, Washington Post
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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• VIDEO: Rebecca Skloot and the Lacks Family discuss the legacy of Henrietta Lacks on ABC World News: How One Woman’s Cells Changed Medicine:


• VIDEO: HeLa Cells Dividing (w/ on-screen captions from the scientist who created this YouTube video): HeLa cells dividing over 27hrs cells round up grow hair then divide


• AUDIO: Rebecca Skloot discusses The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on NPR’s Fresh Air: ‘Henrietta Lacks’: A Donor’s Immortal Legacy:


• AUDIO: Book Probes ‘Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks’, All Things Considered interview, NPR

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• AUDIO: Interview on WHYY’s Radio Times

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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