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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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October 31, 2009
Category: Bioethics
An adjunct instructor at the University of Akron quits when he's told he must submit to DNA testing; the government drafts new proposed legislation protecting the privacy of genetic information - it's open for public comment until the end of November.
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October 29, 2009
Category: Bioethics
Skloot will be speaking about her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa), at universities, scientific organizations, bookstores, book groups, high schools, and more as part of a grass-roots, 3-month book tour (starting 2/2/10). See her interactive tour map to help bring the story of HeLa and the ethics of tissue culture to your town.
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October 28, 2009
Category: Animals
Because of the flood of responses I got to yesterday's post on The Insanity of the FDA Approved Obesity Drug for Dogs, I thought I'd start a series of follow up posts to answer the many questions I got by email and in the comments here.
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October 27, 2009
Category: Animals
Slentrol, the FDA-approved obesity drug for dogs, really makes me cringe. Why? Because dogs don't have eating disorders -- their owners have feeding disorders.
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October 26, 2009
Category: Appearances
Yes folks, it's that time again: Registration is now open for the great ScienceOnline2010 meeting ...
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October 25, 2009
Category: Animals
Today was a big day for non-canine service animal news: Service ferret kicked out of mall; agoraphobia monkey suit rejected by courts. Follow on my New York Times Magazine article, Creature Comforts.
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 7:34 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 5, 2009
Category: HeLa
It's fitting that today -- the day after the 58th anniversary of Henrietta Lacks's death -- the Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how telomeres and the...
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October 3, 2009
Category: Bioethics
In a starred pre-publication review, Publishers Weekly calls The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (about HeLa, by yours truly), "a remarkable debut ... a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society's most vulnerable people." See post for full review, and the book's shiny new cover!
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