Rebecca Skloot spent nearly 10 years researching the story of Henrietta Lacks, a woman from Baltimore whose cancerous tissue, taken from her body when she died in 1951, have supplied researchers a practically immortal line of cells that have led to many medical breakthroughs, including a cure for polio. The book examines the legacy...
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Henrietta Lacks | Image by Photo courtesy the Lacks family The internet is blowing up these days over Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells were used in the 1950s to produce culture media that allowed major scientific advancements ever since. The reason for the interest, presumably, is the release of a new book...
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