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14243_318928475292_541515292_9701050_3340719_n.jpg 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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March 29, 2010

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Tour Trailer Part 1

Category: HeLa

Here, in the first of what will be several trailers of The Immortal Book Tour, you can see bits of the tour, including the blizzard that nearly prevented Skloot from getting there, many great photos, footage of several Lacks family members talking about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and more.

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March 21, 2010

Skloot Launches FAQ Blog Series Answering Reader Questions About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Category: Book Related

Got any questions for Skloot about her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? Now's the time to ask them ... she's launching a series in which she'll answer FAQs on her blog. Now collecting questions from readers.

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