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“Indelible...Much like Ann Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this is a heroic work of cultural and medical journalism.”
—Laura Miller, Salon.com
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Archive for March, 2009

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Skloot’s new weekly health and science column for Slate’s XX Magazine

We’re pleased to announce that, starting in May 2009, Rebecca Skloot will be writing a weekly science and health column for Slate’s new Double X [...]

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Redesign launched at rebeccaskloot.com (finally)

That’s right, after many (many, many) years, rebeccaskloot.com has gotten an overhaul, thanks to the wonderful Pat Walters and Jeremy Bowers.  It’s a work in progress [...]

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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