Rebecca Skloot Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will step up to the podium at noon today in the Westport Library McManus Room to speak about the immortal Henrietta Lack. She will ...

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Rebecca Skloot, the award-winning science writer and author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will discuss the subject of her book during a Sept. 30 visit to RIT. Skloot will give a ...

The Times of Northwest Indiana: Rebecca Skloot finds passion in Henrietta Lacks' story

At one point in time, Rebecca Skloot might have seemed an unlikely person to write a best-selling book -- and soon to be an Oprah movie for HBO -- about the cells of Henrietta Lacks, a poor African ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology: Science writer Rebecca Skloot at RIT Sept. 30

The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached an undisclosed settlement with pharmaceutical company Novartis, marking another legal victory in their effort to hold companies accountable for profiting from ...

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WUNC: Henrietta Lacks' family settles with a biotech company that used her cells

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More than 70 years ago, Henrietta Lacks was being treated for cervical cancer when doctors took cells from her body without her consent. Those cells, known now as HeLa, have been used for medical ...

Henrietta Lacks' family settles with a biotech company that used her cells

WWLTV: Drugmaker settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...