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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. An amazing biography, not sure why it took me so long to pick it up. I'm awed by the amount of research the author put into this book- she goes seamlessly between family history, medical ethics, racism in the South and cell biology.... all in a compelling narrative. It's all the more moving to me because I've actually worked with the HeLa cell line...and only now have I ever thought about the woman it came from.
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