Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the non-fiction bestseller chosen to be read for this year's One Book, One Community project, is the story of HeLa cells, the life of the woman who provided them sixty years ago, and the life they have had in medical research around the world.

To provide an introduction to HeLa cells, the One Book, One Community committee is hosting this display of photographs of HeLa cells in their various stages. The cells in these color images have been fluoresced to bring out what can be described as their "terrible beauty." The images are part of the Biomedical Collections of the Wellcome Trust of London, England.

Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. The Biomedical Collection holds more than 40,000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Part of the Wellcome Collection, a major new  £30 million public venue developed by the Wellcome Trust, the Wellcome Library has over 750,000 books and journals, an extensive range of manuscripts, archives and films, and more than 250,000 paintings, prints and drawings.