Introduction to Henrietta Lacks with author Rebecca Skloot

Author Rebecca Skloot and Harvard Law School Professor Glenn Cohen discuss the story of Henrietta Lacks, a woman who died from cervical cancer in the early 1950s. During the course of her treatment, Henrietta's tissue samples were taken and then cultivated in a laboratory. For the first time, scientists cultivated an immortal human cell line which dramatically changed science and medicine forever. From our free online course, “Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics”: https://harvardx.link/bioethics