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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 358 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The definitive history of the work being carried out by Michael Milken and the Milken Institute to accelerate medical breakthroughs and lead humanity into the 21st century of medicine, providing an inspirational and hopeful road map for the future of the field.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. And while highly unusual, his family is not the only one to wonder whether their heartbreak is the result of unbelievable bad luck, or if there might be another explanation.
Through meticulous research and riveting storytelling, Ingrassia takes us from the 1960s—when Dr. Frederick Pei Li and Dr. Joseph...