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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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Culture Dish Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Category: Bioethics

A serious conflict of interest and transparency problem has arisen on ScienceBlogs. Like several other bloggers here, I'm now on a Pepsi-Induced Hiatus, however like like David Dobb's and Blake Stacy, my hiatus from ScienceBlogs will be permanent.

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First Experiment to Attempt Prevention of Homosexuality in Womb? Really?

Category: Bioethics

A study involving off-label use of dexamethasone in pregnant women (without IRB oversight) is being called "The First Experiment to Attempt Prevention of Homosexuality." Is it?

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A Historic Day: Henrietta Lacks's Long Unmarked Grave Finally Gets a Headstone

Category: Bioethics

Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa) has been lying in an unmarked grave since her death in 1951. Today, thanks to Dr. Roland Pattillo at Morehouse School of Medicine, who donated a headstone for her after reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, her grave is officially marked. Photo included.

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HeLa Onscreen: Oprah and Alan Ball to Make Film of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO

Category: Bioethics

This just in: Oprah and Alan Ball will be making the movie version of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO. Skloot talks about the film, speculation about actors, and why HBO is the perfect home for the HeLa movie.

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks FAQ #2: Did Skloot really flunk high school?

Category: Bioethics

As part of an ongoing series answering FAQs about her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot dishes on the fact that yes, it's true, she flunked high school.

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks FAQ#1: How did Skloot learn about HeLa cells?

Category: Bioethics

As part of an ongoing series answering FAQs about her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot talks about how she first learned about the cells at 16 and why they grabbed her enough to spend decades writing a book about them.

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Immortal Cells; Moral Issues

Category: Bioethics

Today's Baltimore Sun features a great OpEd by Ruth Faden, director of the bioethics institute at Johns Hopkins, exploring the ethical and moral issues raised by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and its relevance to the current debate over...

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Countdown to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks & Press Roundup

Category: Appearances

I've been posting about my impending book tour, and all the great coverage the book has been getting, on Twitter and Facebook, but thought I'd also post a bit of an update and press round up here, for those who (gasp) don't spend all of their time in those places.

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Texas Ordered to Destroy Blood Samples Taken From More Than 5.3 Million Children and Stored Without Consent

Category: Bioethics

I've been meaning to post about this for several weeks, but as we all know, things have been a weee bit hectic. But now, finally:  News on the informed consent for using tissues in research front....

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Join Culture Dish for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Launch Event

Category: Bioethics

Are you in New York? Anywhere near New York? If so ... mark your calendars and come join us for the PUBLIC BOOK LAUNCH EVENT we've all been waiting for (well, at least we here at Culture Dish have been waiting for it ... plus a few other folks)

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