The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Resources

Rebecca Skloot has taken her work to another level by creating The Henrietta Lacks Foundation, a non-profit organization to benefit members of Henrietta's family and others who've been used as subjects in scientific research without consent.

The Lacks family has created their own website to teach about Henrietta's contribution to science and to promote the mission of the Henrietta Lacks Foundation. Check out the photos of the gravestone dedication with the family and Dr. Pattillo—they really bring the story to life.

Just when you thought you couldn't handle any more stories of the government and/or private scientific entities conducting bizarre and ethically questionable experiments on human subjects...

The World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki is a document that outlines ethical practices for doctors conducting research on human subjects. It's unique because it is the result of the global medical community attempting to regulate themselves.

Oprah Winfrey and HBO were planning to produce a movie based on Skloot's book, but the movement on it has been glacial.

You'll find Adam Curtis' 1997 documentary about Henrietta Lacks embedded here on his blog.

After decades of use of HeLa cells without obtaining consent from the Lacks family, the National Institutes of Health finally reach an agreement to offer Henrietta's family some degree of control over her sequenced genome.

A comprehensive article on the evolution of ethical treatment of human subjects (or lack thereof) in the scientific community. This article includes a brief history of some fairly atrocious practices, so make sure you're prepared when you dig into it.

Milwaukee's proud of Roland Pattillo, who practiced medicine there for 35 years. This is a great article about how he became a physician against all odds.

Here's the book review in the New York Times. It's a rave.

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has instituted an annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture. Here's a video of the most recent lecture in Lacks' honor, "Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century."

Follow this link to binge watch the BBC documentary The Way of All Flesh—the vid that Mama Speed checks out of the library for Rebecca Skloot—and a host of other videos related to Henrietta's story.

Henrietta and David's grandchildren share family pictures and speak about their journey to learn more about their grandmother and her contributions to science.

RadioLab speaks with Rebecca Skloot about her work on Henrietta Lacks' story.

Skloot takes Henrietta's story across the pond and chats up The Guardian's Alok Jha.

The African-American Trailblazers of Virginia website includes information on Henrietta Lacks, but it has extraordinary pictures of the HeLa cell in various stages of division. You can also watch a video of the cells dividing.

Here are some infographics that show various cell lines and a timeline of scientific progress spawned by HeLa cells.