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Here’s the compelling story of how a young Rolling Stone writer trackeddown and published the identity of a then-anonymous cell donor, nowknown to millions of readers from Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life ofHenrietta Lacks. As Rebecca describes, back in 1976, a very youngscience writer was the first to locate the Lacks family and explain tothem Henrietta’s remarkable role in biomedicine. This is the story ofhow that happened.She was only known as “Helen Lane” (thepseudonym for Henrietta that the researchers used in public), but herapparently immortal cells had already started to earn an enormous placein science. Michael Rogers, then a staff writer for the rock and rollmagazine, wanted to bring it to life by actually finding her survivingrelatives and paint a portrait of “Helen” herself.It seemedlike a long-shot at best, and in fact nearly proved impossible. Back inthe Seventies, the biomedical community controlled information far moreclosely than today. Plus, the unspoken rules of science writing at thetime made printing a tissue donor’s real name ethically dubious.Ultimately, through a single slip of the tongue by a researcher, Rogerswas able to find the family—as they were on t

Who reads Finding Henrietta Lacks?

Author

Rogers, Michael

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Journalism, Media, Social_sciences

Rating

3.91 / 5 (183 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14