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The Books, Podcasts and Films Getting Us Through Lockdown

Here we’ve shared some of our favourite books, podcasts and films for lockdown. Books The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Henrietta Lacks, better known to scientists as HeLa, was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the…