Just started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the story of a black woman who, unbeknownst to her and her family, donated cervical cancer cells to science shortly before her death. From that small sample, scientists around the world cultured so many tissue samples for use in research that if you could pile all of the "HeLa" cells ever grown onto a scale, theyd weigh more than 50 million metric tons more than 100 Empire State Buildings. Fascinating stuff.
My husband just read the Zamperini bio. It’s on his Kindle, though, so I’ll have to get the dead tree version from the library.
I finished that about a month ago. Fascinating indeed, esp. with a sib in the medical research field.