The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rocks & Fossils Designed by Jonathan Poppele

Designed by Jonathan Poppele

56% cotton

41% Polyester

This versatile design is easy to wear daily and offers a meaningful connection to geology and the natural world through wearable science

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

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rocks & Fossils Designed by Jonathan PoppeleHer 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