Finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. I feel like I came late to this book. It was recommended by my daughter a long while ago, and I just got around to reading it this year. Its title is literally what it's about. Cells from Henrietta Lacks were harvested and have continued to grow ever since. Overall a well-researched book. If you want to know what happens when you remove regulation around something, go back in time for why those regulations were put in place to begin with. Things like informed consent seem like a simple idea, yet took ridiculous efforts and consequences to put into place.
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