The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks av Rebecca Skloot

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<p><b><i>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</i> is a </b><b>fascinating</b><b> mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives. </b><b>Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.<br><br>‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.’ – Hilary Mantel, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .<br><br>Rebecca Skloot’