Bookraft

I met HeLa by way of Scientific American more than ten years ago. I was struck and fascinated by the nature of HeLa's survival - HeLa are the Cervical Cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks, a poor Negro woman treated at John Hopkins Hospital. That is all I knew at the time - but I remembered the sheer and stunning replicative ferocity of HeLa cells and what an effect they had on the story of cancer metastases - how it spread so virulently. And then I met the immortal HeLa again in the New York Times book reviews . After reading the review I know I will want to meet HeLa - Henrietta Lacks again.