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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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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Gets Starred PW Review and a Shiny New Cover

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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Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 9:05 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Jade Goody Dies from Cervical Cancer

Category: Cervical Cancer

Not long ago, I posted about the fact that the world was obsessed with Jade Goody's cancer, but not talking about the real story behind her diagnosis. Today, news hit that she has died. Unfortunately, this story brought out the...

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Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 10:10 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

A Nation Obsessed With Jade Goody's Cervical Cancer But Not Mentioning Why She's Dying From It

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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Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 4:46 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks