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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Broadway Books: March 2011

Seller ID: 42857

ISBN: 1400052181

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now an HBO(R) Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the c...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House Audio: November 2015

Seller ID: 60852

ISBN: 0451486315

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now a major motion picture from HBO(R) starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empi...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Broadway Books: March 2011

Seller ID: 61495

ISBN: 1400052181

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now an HBO(R) Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne

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Author:Skloot, Rebecca

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks