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In 1951 Henrietta Lacks died of an aggressive form of cervical cancer, but her cells live on. For the first time, scientists were able to successfully culture living cells from a tissue sample; a tiny sliver of tissue from the cancer that killed Henrietta became the world-known HeLa cells, used in countless research projects. Yet the donor of this remarkable gift to science was never acknowledged, and, in fact, her family was unaware of her contribution for decades. This is the story not only of
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I am not a science person at all and am so glad someone picked this book for book club. The story is fascinating in both a positive and negative way. The discovery of HPV interested me a lot because that is so rampant in today's world, I didn't even realize it had been around for as long as it has. I feel smarter having read this book and am asking others if they have heard of Henrietta Lacks / HeLa and it isn't someone anyone has heard of yet. I don't know if I have ever even read a non fiction
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