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the immortal life of Henrietta lacks by Rebecca Skloot, The woman in the photograph. There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met its left corner tourney and patched together with tape. She looks straight into the camera and smiles, hands on hips, dress suit, neatly pressed, lips painted deep red. It's the late 19 forties, and she hasn't yet reached the age of 30. Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her, a tumor that would leave her five Children motherless and change the future of medicine beneath the photo caption says her name is Henrietta lacks Helen Lane or Helen Larson. No one knows who took that picture, but its appeared hundreds of times in magazines and science textbooks on blog's and the laboratory walls. She's usually identified as Helen Lane, but often she has no name at all. She simply called Hela, the code name given to the world's first immortal human cells. Her cells cut from her cervix just months before she died. Her real name is Henrietta lacks