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Rebecca Skloot
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot spent a decade untangling the story behind HeLa, the immortal cell line that built modern biomedicine, and the Black woman whose cells were taken without her knowledge. The result braids science, history, and a living family's grief into one of the most humane works of nonfiction in recent memory.