Rebecca Skloot
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE...
Author
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Publisher
Editorial Crítica
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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Esta es la apasionante historia de una mujer cuyos tejidos han salvado la vida a millones de personas en todo el mundo
Se llamaba Henrietta Lacks. Era una campesina cuyas células, que fueron tomadas sin su conocimiento, siguen vivas a pesar de que ella lleva muerta más de setenta años y se han convertido en una de las herramientas más importantes de la medicina: fueron vitales para el desarrollo de la vacuna contra la polio, desvelaron secretos...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...