The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Deborah wanted nothing to do with fighting Hopkins—she was too busy raising her chil- dren and trying to teach herself about her ...

As I held the flask, I concentrated on the picture I’d formed in my mind of the cells, visual- izing a disturbance in the cell f ...

$250,000 and up to ten years in jail. It could also violate the 2008 Genetic Information Nondis- crimination Act, created to pro ...

twenty-two. After the surgery, Moore moved to Seattle, became an oyster salesman, and went on with his life. But every few month ...

those cells produced. Golde hadn’t yet sold the rights to the patent, but according to the law- suit Moore eventually filed, Gol ...

were willing to pay large sums for. This was convenient, because Slavin needed money. He worked odd jobs waiting tables and doin ...

cells, argued that there were numerous parties with legitimate property interests in any cul- tured cells, including the scienti ...

But Golde appealed and won. And with each new decision in the suit, headlines flip- flopped: COURT RULES CELLS ARE THE PATIENT’S ...

paper! And tell everybody! Bring it around. We want everybody in the world to know about my mother.” The Immortal life of Henrie ...

death, hated him for burying her in an unmarked grave, and never forgave him for leaving the children with Ethel. Day eventually ...

Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman’s Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused. No one in the Lacks family remembers how the ...

Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945. The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Left: Elsie Lacks, Henrietta’s older daughter, about ...

The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951. COUR- TES ...

The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the ...

Today, publishing medical records without permission could violate federal law. But in the early eighties, when someone gave Hen ...

HeLa and other cells, scientists studied HPV infection and how it causes cancer. They learned that HPV inserts its DNA into the ...

E very decade has had its landmark moments in HeLa research, and the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was only one of ...

Cells change while growing in culture, just as they change in a human body. They’re ex- posed to chemicals, sunlight, and differ ...

ing whether Henrietta’s cells might hold the key to human life extension—perhaps even im- mortality—and headlines once again cla ...

T he story of Henrietta Lacks eventually caught the attention of a BBC producer in London named Adam Curtis, and in 1996, he beg ...