It took over a decade for author Rebecca Skloot to unravel the story ... t her children afford health insurance? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the drama of scientific discovery ...

(National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research via AP) Rebecca Skloot talks about the long journey of turning her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, into an HBO film starring Oprah.

In her 2009 book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot found that over 60,000 scientific articles referenced HeLa, increasing at a rate of 300 each month. HeLa was used to create ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story of a poor black tobacco farmer who unknowingly became one of the most important figures in modern medical research.