Barnes & Noble Highlights Skloot's 'Henrietta Lacks'

Barnes & Noble is highlighting Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks this week as its eBook Showcase. Skloot’s book has been one of the most talked about of the year, chronicling the unlikely history of cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge. After her death, the cells lived on, cultured and reproduced to this day for use in many of the major medical breakthroughs of the last half century.