“This is an extraordinary gift of a book, beautiful and devastating—a work of outstanding literary reportage. Read it! It’s the best you will find in many many years.”—ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC, author of Random Family
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
An adjunct instructor at the University of Akron quits when he’s told he must submit to DNA testing; the government drafts new proposed legislation protecting the privacy of genetic information – it’s open for public comment until the end of November.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Skloot will be speaking about her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa), at universities, scientific organizations, bookstores, book groups, high schools, and more as part of a grass-roots, 3-month book tour (starting 2/2/10). See her interactive tour map to help bring the story of HeLa and the ethics of tissue culture to your town.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Because of the flood of responses I got to yesterday’s post on The Insanity of the FDA Approved Obesity Drug for Dogs, I thought I’d start a series of follow up posts to answer the many questions I got by email and in the comments here.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Slentrol, the FDA-approved obesity drug for dogs, really makes me cringe. Why? Because dogs don’t have eating disorders — their owners have feeding disorders.
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Yes folks, it’s that time again: Registration is now open for the great ScienceOnline2010 meeting …
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Skloot has just launched an interactive map as part of organizing a grass-roots tour for her upcoming book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She [...]
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Today was a big day for non-canine service animal news: Service ferret kicked out of mall; agoraphobia monkey suit rejected by courts. Follow on my New York Times Magazine article, Creature Comforts.
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
More exciting news for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: It was just selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for [...]
Monday, October 5th, 2009
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 [...]
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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!
