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Publisher, Date: New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Description: x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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ISBN: 9781400052172
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Summary: From a single abbrevaited life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of zvirginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-centurt biology: human cells that could survive -- even thrive -- in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution -- and her cells' strange survival -- left them full of pride, anger and suspician.
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