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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
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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: HeLa
It's fitting that today -- the day after the 58th anniversary of Henrietta Lacks's death -- the Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how telomeres and the...
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Category: Education
Rebecca Skloot's Tips for Successful Book Reviewing: "Strategies for Breaking in and Staying in: Getting started as a critic, building your reviewing portfolio, going national, and keeping editors happy."
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Category: News
I'm pleased to announce that, starting in May 2009, I'll be writing a weekly science and health column for Slate's new Double X Magazine. I'll be covering any and all science that might be of interest to women (note: I...
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Category: News
Amazing archive of previously unseen medical images now online free via Flickr ... a beautiful treasure trove.
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Category: Bioethics
A new CDC study finds that IVF babies have increased risk of birth defects. This is nothing new. Skloot discusses the history, lack of safety trials and regulation, plus extreme treatments, including the growth of human embryos using monkey uterus and cloning-like technology
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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.
Posted by Rebecca Skloot at 4:46 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: News
The new stimulus package includes serious cuts to science funding (like nixing 100% of the National Science Foundation's $$). This -- as an old family friend of mine used to say -- is in the forefront of the not good. ...
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Category: Politics
Leaked DOJ documents reveal pending ban of all non-canine service animals - here's how to protest if interested
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