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Product: The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks (Digital HD/DVD)
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Product: Life: The Mortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Product: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Product: HeLa Cells of Henrietta Lacks
Description: Rebecca Skloot and her best seller, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, has created a lot of interest in the immortal HeLa cells that were taken from a 31-year-old black woman called Henrietta Lacks without her family's consent at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore in 1951. She describes the story of how Henrietta Lacks died and how her cells were sent around the world for medical research. She goes through the life stories of Henrietta and the Lacks family and the pain they endured when they found out about Henrietta's cells. Skloot's narration of the entire account is powerful, emotional, painful and even heart breaking. Her book has become a notable science reading for high school children and science undergraduates in the United States. And rightly so, Henrietta's story is a case of medical racism, violation of ethical obligation, segregation, ignorance, poverty and painful American history.

Today, HeLa cells are the most widely used cell line in the world and has been instrumental in many of the world's medical discoveries. It was the first cells to be sent to space, has helped eradicate polio and has been used in 70,000 medical studies including the development of drugs for herpes, Parkinson's disease, leukemia, and influenza.

The title The Immortal life of Henriette Lacks actually refers to the immortalization of cancer cells and we look at how HeLa cells are cultured and are able to divide indefinitely. This audiobook looks at the life of Henrietta Lacks and describes HeLa cells in more detail.

Topics covered in this book:

What are HeLa cells?

Where did HeLa cells come from?

Who was Henrietta Lacks?

Epithelial adenocarcinoma and HeLa

Life of Henrietta

The family of Henrietta Lacks

Dr. George Otto Gey
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Product: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Unabridged edition by Skloot, Rebecca (2010) Hardcover
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Product: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot: A 15-minute Summary & Analysis
Description: Rebecca Skloot's book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, chronicles the life, death, and immortality of Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman whose cervical cancer cells became one of the most important factors in bringing about important scientific and medical advancements in the 20th century. Her family, however, did not know that researchers were using Henrietta's cells in their experiments until much later. When the family learned the truth, they endured turmoil and heartache in the decades that followed.

Henrietta grew up in Clover, Virginia, where she lived and worked on a tobacco farm with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, and many cousins. One of these cousins was David "Day" Lacks, who would become her husband.

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Product: [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks] [By: Skloot, Rebecca] [March, 2011]
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Product: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Chinese Edition)
Description: Language:Chinese.SoftCover.Pub Date:2018-11-01.publisher:Guangxi Normal University Press.description:Paperback. Pub Date: 2018-11-01 Pages: 369 Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Her name is Henrietta Lacks. but scientists only know HeLa (HeLa). She is a poor tobacco farmer in the southern United States. living on the land that her black s...
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Product: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Nonfiction Series (Curriculum Unit)
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Product: Summary and Analysis of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Based on the Book by Rebecca Skloot (Smart Summaries)
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Product: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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New York Times Bestseller
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Product: Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
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Product: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Product: Edison
Brand: Random House
Color: Black
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews
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Product: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24)
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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Product: Study Guide: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (SuperSummary)
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