The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor, black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells -taken without her knowledge- became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta´s family did not learn of her ´immortality´ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences... Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life og Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary detective story in search of the sould and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four cornsers of the world.