In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward ... As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been used in nearly every ...

Regarded from the perspective of expanding the knowledge base, there can be little doubt that the discovery and exploitation ...

In her 2009 book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot found that over 60,000 scientific articles referenced HeLa, increasing at a rate of 300 each month. HeLa was used to create ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story of a poor black tobacco farmer who unknowingly became one of the most important figures in modern medical research.

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But the story of HeLa cells has a twist to it. This cell line that is so prevalent in research was established without the consent of Henrietta Lacks or her family. In 2010, a book titled The Immortal ...

author of the 2010 bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks’ story was also the subject of an HBO movie starring Oprah Winfrey. “They treated her like a specimen, like a lab rat ...

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The story came to broader public attention in 2010 with the publishing of Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, which was later released as a documentary movie in 2017.

Henrietta Lacks, often called the ‘Mother of Modern Medicine,’ has left a legacy that transcends generations and continues to ...

...Henrietta Lacks. The Emmy-nominated, powerful true story of a poor African-American farmer whose cells became one of the most important tools in medical history ...

Henrietta Lacks, known as the "mother of modern medicine," was honored with a statue on the 71st anniversary of her death.