Rebecca Skloot and her best-seller, \'The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks\' has created a lot of interest in the immortal Hela Cells that were taken from a 31 year old black woman called Henrietta Lacks without her family\'s consent at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore in 1951.
She goes through the life stories of Henrietta and the Lacks family and the pain they endured w.
She describes the story of how Henrietta Lacks died and how her Cells were sent around the world for medical research.
Rebecca Skloot and her best-seller, \'The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks\' has created a lot of interest in the immortal Hela Cells that were taken from a 31 year old black woman called Henrietta Lacks without her family\'s consent at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore in 1951