Meet the family behind the most famous cells in human history! The "immortal" HeLa cells, taken from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge in 1951, have changed modern medicine for the past 75 years--fueling nearly every major medical breakthrough from the polio vaccine to cancer to AIDS research to gene mapping to the COVID vaccine! The world finally learned the true story of Henrietta herself from Rebecca Skloot's runaway 2010 bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
