author of the 2010 bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks’ story was also the subject of an HBO movie starring Oprah Winfrey. “They treated her like a specimen, like a lab rat ...

Aided by a young journalist, a woman searches for clues about her mother, who died of cancer in 1951 but not before samples of healthy and cancerous tissues were secretly harvested from her and ...

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when Rebecca Skloot published “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” In 2017, Oprah Winfrey starred in an HBO movie of the same name based off the book. In a statement on its website ...

Henrietta Lacks was shortened to HeLa — the world ... with the publication of Rebecca Skloot’s book and the subsequent HBO movie. However, the Lacks still have to fight for their rights.

Young mother Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951 ... The bestselling book became a 2015 movie. At what price does ...

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research, settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of ...

The story came to broader public attention in 2010 with the publishing of Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, which was later released as a documentary movie in 2017.

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” which was published in 2010. Oprah Winfrey portrayed her daughter in an HBO movie about the story. Johns Hopkins said it never sold or profited from the ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story ... The story is being made into an HBO movie, produced by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball. Watch Rebecca Skloot talk ...

In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...