On October 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks died. But her cells didn't. Over 50,000,000 tons have since been produced worldwide.

Best-selling young adult novelist Maggie Stiefvater and Henrietta Lacks’ grandson Ron Lacks are among the authors featured at Baltimore’s premier literary festival. The Baltimore Book Festival ...

Several events continue SUNY Cortland’s yearlong quest to answer questions about a common humanity — especially the issues that divide it — by considering a non-fiction book concerned with race and ...

One of the pages in the front of Rebecca Skloot's book lists 19 awards that "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" has won. It is also currently on the best seller list. Is the book that good? Yes, it ...

HeLa cells are the most famous human cells in science. Discover how cervical cancer, HPV proteins, and bioethics shaped one ...

The Springfield Free Public Library's (Really Good) Book Discussion Group will meet on Thursday, June 7 at 7 p.m., to discuss "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. This book ...

A Tennessee woman is claiming that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a biography of a black woman whose cervical cancer cells were taken without her consent and used for medical research (a book ...

Ask a given person what they know about the history of the use of African-Americans as unwilling research subjects and they are likely to mention one infamous incident: Tuskegee. “Such a failure seems ...