The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksBy: Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one womans cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne. No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book. Hilary Mantel, Guardian Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells