Central - Brown Baggers Book Group
Date: 10/18/2012
Time: 12:00 pm
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
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. Check the Catalog 