TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skloot,Rebecca
TI  - The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
T2  - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
SN  - 1410427927 (hardcover)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Waterville, Me.
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Lacks, Henrietta,
KW  - African American women
KW  - History
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Research
KW  - Cell culture
KW  - HeLa cells
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-615); Life -- Death -- Immortality
N2  - Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping
ER  -