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 ...

...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 ...

But the story of HeLa cells has a twist to it. This cell line that is so prevalent in research was established without the consent of Henrietta Lacks or her family. In 2010, a book titled The Immortal ...

“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.

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.

Immortal cell lines, such as HeLa cells, are the backbone of many experiments conducted by today's cell and molecular biologists, but most of them give little thought to the origins of the ...

author of the 2010 bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks’ story was also the subject of an HBO movie starring Oprah Winfrey. “They treated her like a specimen, like a lab rat ...

"Henrietta Lacks' life, death, body ... these cells continued to multiply, making them "immortal". The cell line, called "HeLa" after Ms Lacks' first and last names, has since been sent to ...

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

Her legacy went without much public recognition for decades until journalist Rebecca Skloot chronicled the story of her cells in the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” which Oprah ...

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research, settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of ...