The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot with Bahni Turpin (Narrator), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)

12 hours, 31 minutes first pub 2010 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning,...

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