"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tabacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more."Welcome to the MORE Program’s book blog. As we read and discuss this year’s One Campus, One Book selection, I welcome all of you to reflect and write about Henrietta’s enduring legacy. Writing helps us convey ideas, solve problems, and understand our changing world and what better way to do this than through Skloot’s story of the HeLa cells. Science, medicine, bioethics, technology, race, class, and gender in America are just a few of the issues that I encourage you to blog about.
