The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [sound recording] Rebecca Skloot.

By: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-Contributor(s): Campbell, Cassandra [nrt.] | Turpin, Bahni [nrt.]Material type: MusicMusicPublisher: New York : Random House Audio, p2010Description: 10 sound discs (12 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: 9780307712509; 0307712508; 9780307712523Subject(s): Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health | Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography | African American women -- History | Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History | HeLa cells | Cancer -- Research | Cell culture | Medical ethicsGenre/Form: Audiobooks.DDC classification: 616/.02774092 | B LOC classification: RC265.6.L24 | S55 2010bReading by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin of the 2009 book.Summary: Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
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Compact disc.

Unabridged.

Reading by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin of the 2009 book.

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.

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