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Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer, and a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine; she's worked as a correspondent for the NPR show RadioLab, and PBS Nova ScienceNOW. Her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover and others. She teaches in the University of Memphis's creative writing program. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is forthcoming from Crown on February 2, 2010. It tells the story of HeLa -- the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture (pictured in the blog's banner) -- the woman those cells came from, and the family she left behind. Click Welcome to Culture Dish for an introduction to this blog and its author.
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December 31, 2008
Category: Assistance Creatures
There are assistance monkeys for quadriplegics, parrots for psychotics, even assistance ducks. Should the law recognize them?
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December 30, 2008
Category: News
Award-winning science writer and author Rebecca Skloot moves her blog, Culture Dish, to ScienceBlogs.
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