Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

It's a compelling read that truly fleshes out an immortal cell line cultivated from an African American woman back in 1951. These HeLa cells were essential to developing a polio vaccine, they have been sent into space, blown up and used for decades. One scientist posits that if you could weigh all the HeLa cells ever grown they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons.

It's a story about science, ethics, memory and family.