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Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer, and author of the New York Times Bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 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. The book has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, and many others. To see those segments and find information, reviews, book special features, and more, visit her website. Skloot is also a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine; she's worked as a correspondent for WNYC's RadioLab, and PBS's Nova ScienceNOW. Her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover and others.

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Culture Dish on the Road

Category: Appearances • Book Related • HeLa • Housekeeping
Posted on: January 14, 2009 9:05 AM, by Rebecca Skloot

Yesterday was the first day I was able to post since the ScienceBlogs upgrade because of glitches in the system. Now I'm headed off to Durham, NC, until Sunday. More below the jump:

I'll be visiting a Duke science journalism class and speaking about my book at a Women in Science and Engineering event on Friday. Then Saturday I'll be at the ScienceOnline09 conference talking about Archive Post - Oldies But Goodies.jpg

blogging and breaking into print publication. I'll post from the road if there are any breaking developments related to the assistance creature story I wrote for the New York Times Magazine, which I've been doing regular follow ups on here. But otherwise, I'll start with what will be ongoing occasional posts from the Culture Dish archives (which it turns out can't be imported here because of incompatibilities between this system and Blogger). You'll know then when you see them because this "Oldies But Goodies" icon will appear somewhere in the post. Happy reading.