In her 2009 book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot found that over 60,000 scientific articles referenced HeLa, increasing at a rate of 300 each month. HeLa was used to create ...

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“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story of a poor black tobacco farmer who unknowingly became one of the most important figures in modern medical research.

...Henrietta Lacks. The Emmy-nominated, powerful true story of a poor African-American farmer whose cells became one of the most important tools in medical history ...

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

The story came to broader public attention in 2010 with the publishing of Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, which was later released as a documentary movie in 2017.

The immortal cells can grow and divide indefinitely, thus enabling a multitude of innovative and life-saving studies on human ...

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Henrietta Lacks, known as the "mother of modern medicine," was honored with a statue on the 71st anniversary of her death.

On Saturday, March 15, the public is welcome to Morgan State University’s Behavioral and Social Sciences Center to see the ...