The fascinating story of HeLa, a cell line that is used a lot in biology. This is both the story of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells the cell line originates from, and the story of Rebecca Skoot, the journalist, when she started to work on the story and to interact with the Lacks family, in particular Deborah, Henrietta's daughter. On top of the story itself, you get an overview of the hospital medicine in the 40s-50s in the US, and a lot of food for thought on ethical questions, patient consent for research samples, and the ownership of said samples.