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The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .

There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met . . . she looksstraight into the camera and smiles, hands on hips, dress suit neatly pressed, lips painted deep red . . . her name is Henrietta Lacks.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born apoor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge -became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools inmedicine. Yet Henrietta'...

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Chi opera in campo biomedico conosce bene la sigla HeLa, che denota una linea cellulare di vitale importanza nelle ricerche sul cancro e su molte altre malattie: cellule speciali, tanto resistenti da essere praticamente immortali, vendute e comprate da decenni nei laboratori di tutto il mondo. Ma quelle quattro lettere racchiudono anche una storia perturbante, emblematica - e soprattutto una persona in carne e ossa. Henrietta Lacks lavorava ne...

HeLa-Zellen haben Millionen Menschen das Leben gerettet - doch niemand kennt die Frau, von der sie stammen: Henrietta LacksWir haben den HeLa-Zellen die größten Erfolge der Medizin zu verdanken. Sie ermöglichten Impfstoffe gegen Kinderlähmung, Medikamente gegen Krebs, und ohne sie gäbe es keine Genforschung. Was die meisten nicht wissen: Hinter dem Kürzel »HeLa« verbirgt sich Henrietta Lacks, eine schwarze Tabakarbeiterin, die 1951 an Krebs st...

Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.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 pil...

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture from HBO® starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNNHer 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 gro...

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture from HBO® starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNNHer 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 gro...

Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells-taken without her knowledge in 1951-became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknow...

Now a major motion picture from HBO® starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.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 yea...