“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.

(National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research via AP) Rebecca Skloot talks about the long journey of turning her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, into an HBO film starring Oprah.

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 ...

In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward ... As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been used in nearly every ...

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.

and only came to understand its full scope thanks to the work of Rebecca Skloot, author of the 2010 bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks’ story was also the subject of an HBO ...

...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 ...