rebecca skloot
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Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Were Taken and Used in Scientific Breakthroughs, Receives Posthumous Award
While Henrietta Lacks was being treated for cervical cancer, researchers took biopsies without her consent and created the first ‘immortal’ cell line.
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Henrietta Lacks: The Immortal Mother of Modern Medicine Will Be Honored in the Smithsonian
Here’s a fitting Mother’s Day tribute: A portrait of the woman responsible for some of the greatest research of the 20th and 21st centuries—including polio and in vitro fertilization—will now be featured in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Henrietta Lacks was a Virginia woman who was diagnosed with and died of aggressive cervical cancer in…
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For the Henrietta Lacks Family, It’s a Matter of Who Gets to Tell Their Story
Who can tell your family’s story? That’s one of the key issues the book and now HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, raises. It’s one that Henrietta Lacks’ son Lawrence and his son, Ron, have been asking for some time now. Henrietta Lacks is the woman whose cells, named HeLa, were able to…