Henrietta was born in 1920 to a family of tobacco farmers in Virginia. Part historical account, part detective story and part ethical debate, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks combines these narrative threads into an absorbing and challenging book that should be on every physiologist’s reading list. Skloot’s account of Henrietta’s life is told with sensitivity and genuine warmth the explanation of attempts to culture cells and the subsequent commercialisation of the cell line have sufficient scientific integrity, despite the author’s lack of scientific training. Henrietta’s story and the development of the HeLa cell line are at the heart of Rebecca Skloot’s first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Yet, despite this, some could not tell you that the acronym HeLa refers to Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who died of cervical cancer aged 31 and who, arguably, has contributed more to biomedical science than any other person to date. Over the decades, HeLa cells have led to important advances in gene mapping and in vitro fertilisation, as well as the life-saving development of vaccines for polio and cancer. The Physiological Society’s blue plaquesīook review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca SklootĮven if they’ve never used a HeLa cell in their own research, most physiologists probably know a colleague who has, or have read a paper reporting data from these cells.The use of animals in educating the next generation of life science researchers.The Future of Interdisciplinary Research Beyond REF 2021.Sport & Exercise Science Education report.A National Post-Pandemic Resilience Programme.Supporting the development of public health guidance for long COVID.Translating Knowledge and Research into Impact.Preparing your research grant application.Advice for attending your first meeting.Early Career Life Scientists’ Symposium.Michael J Rennie Oral Communication Prize.The Journal of Physiology Early Investigator Prize.Experimental Physiology Inaugural Review Prize.Experimental Physiology Mid-Career Researcher Prize.Experimental Physiology Early Career Author Prize.The Otto Hutter Physiology Teaching Prize.The Journal of Physiology’s Virtual Journal Club.
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