{"id":144053,"date":"2021-11-04T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144053"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:32:58","slug":"angelina-recommends-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-rebecca-skloot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144053","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Recommends: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks &#8211; Rebecca Skloot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-144054\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Henrietta-Lacks-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Henrietta-Lacks-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Henrietta-Lacks.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>&#8220;Raw and Emotional&#8221; are two words that come to mind when describing the October Biography Book Club pick\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2755516?locg=11\"><i>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/i><\/a> by Rebecca Skloot. This book was chosen at an opportune time as an article was recently published on 10\/6\/21 in the Boston Globe (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2582823523?accountid=40693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2582823523?accountid%3D40693&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635872297668000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH8KM69idKJFQuy-FdKyctVSbkFeQ\">link to article<\/a>) with the headline &#8220;Lack&#8217;s family sues Waltham company over use of her cells: Thermo Fisher Scientific accused of unfair profits; others will be targeted&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0HeLa cells were the first human cells to survive and thrive outside the body in a test tube. Ever since then, HeLa cell lines have been used in more than 100,000 scientific PubMed\u00a0publications on a range of topics including cancer, cell biology, genetics, and infectious diseases.\u00a0HeLa cells have also been used recently to help test for the COVID vaccines.\u00a0 It&#8217;s rare for one to stop and take a moment to think about the exact science behind these medical advancements, and this book does just that,\u00a0it makes you stop and think.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t read this book yet, I highly recommend it as a non-fiction biographical look through the lens of a time when medical research was still evolving during racial segregation, and how one African American womans life led to a lasting contribution in this world.\u00a0 Hopefully the Lacks Foundation and family will one day benefit\u00a0and be recognized\u00a0for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Raw and Emotional&#8221; are two words that come to mind when describing the October Biography Book Club pick\u00a0The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This book was chosen at an opportune time as an article was recently published on 10\/6\/21 in the Boston Globe (link to article) with the headline &#8220;Lack&#8217;s family sues&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":144054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angelina-recommends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Henrietta-Lacks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Btr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144057,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144053\/revisions\/144057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}