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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
🔬Science~400 pages
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In 1951 a young Black woman from Baltimore died of cervical cancer, and cells taken from her without her knowledge became the first human cells to grow indefinitely in culture, underpinning decades of medical research. This narrative nonfiction follows two threads: the science that made those cells indispensable, and the family who learned only much later what had happened, and who could not afford the medicine built on them. Reported over a decade, it moves between laboratory history, Southern family memory and questions of consent and ownership, told plainly and with evident care for everyone involved.
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