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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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February 28, 2009
Category: News
The media is obsessed with Jade Goody, who is dying on television at the age of 27 from stage 4 cervical cancer. But most coverage misses the real story, and an opportunity to educate women.
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Category: Animals
A documentary film is being planned based on my recent NYTimes Magazine story on the use of non-canine service animals. It's producers are looking for subjects to interview.
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February 12, 2009
Category: Animals
After a long amazing life that inspired millions and forced legal change on New York City, my dog Bonny passed away peacefully at home this weekend.
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February 7, 2009
Category: News
The new stimulus package includes serious cuts to science funding (like nixing 100% of the National Science Foundation's $$). This -- as an old family friend of mine used to say -- is in the forefront of the not good. ...
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February 6, 2009
Category: Book Related
Researchers have grown a "Living Doll" that looks like some strange mix between Gumbi and a gingerbread man but is actually made of living cancer cells.
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February 5, 2009
Category: Animals
In a fairly hilarious slip, yesterday a USA Today said researchers had found a 2500 foot snake fossil in Colombia. Uh, make that a 2500 pound snake (it was about 40 feet long). But still: BIG SNAKE!! And it was 65...
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Category: Animals
The Department of Justice has withdrawn its proposed ADA regulations that would have banned the use of assistance monkeys, birds, miniature horses, etc.
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February 4, 2009
Category: Animals
Fun with veterinary x-rays: dogs filled with knives and fish hooks, and an alien inside a duck.
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February 3, 2009
Category: Animals
A few hours ago, Joe Biden swore in the new head of the Department of Justice -- the first African American Attorney General in history. This is the man who will be deciding, among other things, the future of guide...
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