An Excerpt from "The Miracle Woman" - The story of Henrietta Lack , By Rebecca Skloot

When Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cancer in 1951, the doctors took her cells and grew them in test tubes. Those cells led breaktroughs from Parkinson's to polio. But today Henrietta is all but forgotten. In an excerpt fromher book, The Immortal Story of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot Tells her story..

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