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Rebecca Skloot’s medical-justice thriller chronicles life of woman’s Polio-curing cells — and the theft of a family legacy

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02 Feb, 2010

In her decade-in-the making tracing of a woman whose cells were instrumental to modern medicine, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot, a Colorado State University graduate, uncovers the injustice of one family whose biological legacy was stolen.

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