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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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Patent Dispute Prevents Patients From Getting Promising Drug for Lou Gehrig's Disease

Category: Bioethics

Speaking of the debate over patents interfering with medical care: A promising new drug for treating Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) is not available to patients due to a patent dispute.

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Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 10:29 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Testosterone Research and My Latest Washington Post Book Review

Category: Neurology

In this Sunday's Washington Post, I reviewed Hannah Holmes's book The Well-Dressed Ape. Overall it was a pretty positive review, but I criticized her for the way she linked testosterone (via left-handedness and ring-finger length) with various traits, including violence,...

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Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 12:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks