What Is The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks?
“For me, it’s writing a book and telling people about this story.” Freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine, Rebecca Skloot, started her writing career with her first book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book took Rebecca more than a decade to research and write. It instantly hit the New York Times best-seller list where it has remained for more than four years since its publication in 2010. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was about an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks. Her cancer cells were harvested and used to create an immortal cell line for scientific experimentation. Henrietta Lacks was 30 years old at the time she went into Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1951. She sought help