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The movie is based on a bestselling book, "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks." It's a true story in which the title character is played by Oprah Winfrey in her first leading role in a TV movie ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Skloot, a science writer, intertwines the story of Lacks’ own brief life (she died at 31 after bearing five children) with accounts of how scientists ...

(Quantrell Colbert/HBO) This piece discusses “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the plot of which has been available basically since 2010. The best reason to watch “The Immortal Life of ...

They became the first immortal human cells ever ... “woo-woo stuff”; Deborah believed Henrietta’s spirit lived on in her cells, controlling the life of anyone who crossed its paths.

They became the first immortal human cells ever ... as "woo-woo stuff"; Deborah believed Henrietta's spirit lived on in her cells, controlling the life of anyone who crossed its paths.

what biologists called an immortal cell line. This had been accomplished with mouse cells in 1943, but so far Gey’s human experiments had failed. Henrietta Lacks’ normal cells died like all ...

. During an examination, her doctor, Richard Wesley TeLinde, a prominent cervical cancer specialist, took a tissue sample from Lacks’ cervix without her knowledge or consent, and passed it to ...

Oprah Winfrey stars as the daughter of a woman who inadvertently advanced medical science in the tepid HBO melodrama 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.' By Keith Uhlich There’s a great story ...

The scientific story told in Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is marvel enough: Lacks died in 1951, but also lives on in the form of cells, taken from a single biopsy ...