The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rocks & Fossils this deck combines learning with

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Bring home this intriguing figure to enrich science play and inspire questions about Earth’s deep past

From the astrologers of ancient China and Babylon to the high priests of the Maya

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rocks & Fossils this deck combines learning withHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cellstaken without her knowledgebecame one of the most important tools in medicine: The first immortal human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of