The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
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SoundPublisher number: PRHA 2868 | Penguin Random HousePublisher: New York, New York : Random House Audio, [2010]Copyright date: ©2009Copyright date: ℗2010Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 10 CDs (12 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9780451486318Subject(s): Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health | Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography | African American women -- History | Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History | HeLa cells | Cancer -- Research | Cell culture | Medical ethicsGenre/Form: Audiobooks. DDC classification: 616.02774092 Review: 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 Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
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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 Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
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