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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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123000 |
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digital rda |
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. |
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1140L Lexile |
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Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.0 18 151442 |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin. |
| 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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Requires Boundless App. |
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Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health.
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Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951. |
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Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health. |
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Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography.
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African American women -- History.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
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HeLa cells.
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Cancer -- Research.
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Cell culture.
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Medical ethics.
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Cancer -- Patients. |
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Cancer -- Research. |
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Cell culture. |
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Health. |
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HeLa cells. |
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Medical ethics. |
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Nonfiction. |
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Biography & Autobiography. |
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History. |
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Science. |
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Virginia. |
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Audiobooks.
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Biographies.
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Biography.
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Biographies.
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Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks New York : Random House Audio, ℗2010 9780307712509 (NjBwBT)bl2010002457 (OCoLC)401141346 |
| ISBN |
9780307712530 : $95.00 |
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0307712532 : $95.00 |
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