The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 6.3

The story is adapted from Rebecca Skloot's documentary literature. The title character Henrietta Lacks is a black woman suffering from cancer in the 1950s. Medical researchers illegally obtained cancer cells from her in 1951, which led to a shocking medical breakthrough-not only changed the lives of many people, but even changed the entire medical profession. It is said that Henrietta Lacks's cells were used to create the first "immortal" human stem cell, which survived a week after receiving the implant. The protagonist of the show is Henrietta Lacks's daughter Deborah Lacks (Oprah Winfrey), who tries to understand a mother she has never met and studies her strange connection with the development of modern medicine. The plot profoundly exposes the problems of arrogance, arrogance, race and poverty in the medical community, and deeply analyzes how the "most unlikely friends" build the "deepest friendship". Rose Byrne plays the young female journalist Rebecca Skloot, who is investigating Henrietta...