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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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Category: News
Please redirect your browsers to Culture Dish's new home, where we've just put up the inaugural welcome post, and where you'll find an RSS to subscribe to so you can follow Culture Dish wherever it goes next.
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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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Category: Book Related
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:...
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Category: Housekeeping
Links to updates, radio interviews and a funny video while ScienceBlogs is down for an upgrade.
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Category: Media Appearances
Update: Culture Dish's feed is now live! (Thanks Sb folks!) To subscribe to this blog, just click this link for RSS feed or subscribe to get Culture Dish via email by clicking here. Also: I'll be on NPR's Day-to-Day today...
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Category: News
Award-winning science writer and author Rebecca Skloot moves her blog, Culture Dish, to ScienceBlogs.
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