Friday, May 27th, 2011
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On May 14, 2011, children of Roanoke, VA (Henrietta Lacks’s hometown) celebrated “Henrietta Lacks Day” and participated in a HeLa 4 Life Bike-a-Thon fundraiser at [...]
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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“The intrigue of this book is that it’s a science book and it’s as much a page-turner as The Da Vinci Code, says Liz Funk [...]
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has won the Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction Audiobook of 2011 (Random House Audio, unabridged, read by Cassandra Campbell [...]
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
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Another great interview with Rebecca Skloot, this one with the A.V. Club (Chicago). In it, Rebecca answers often-asked questions about writing The Immortal Life and [...]
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
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Dr. Henrietta Lacks — a fitting tribute to Henrietta’s profound contributions to medical research: Henrietta Lacks was just honored with a posthumous degree by Baltimore’s [...]
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
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Host Ira Flatow and authors Douglas Starr and Deborah Blum suggest their current favorite science reading material – and respond to listeners’ suggestions on NPR’s [...]
Monday, May 16th, 2011
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Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Awards (MJA OBA) awarded The Immortal Life its top award in “general readership non-fiction.” This book, which tells the story [...]
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
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The Journal of the History of Medicine calls The Immortal Life a “remarkable book” and envisions its use in diverse classrooms for years to come: [...]
Monday, May 9th, 2011
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“If you have read and enjoyed Siddhartha Mukherjee’s impressive The Emperor of Maladies, a Biography of Cancer,” says book reviewer Mims Cushing, “you will find [...]
Friday, May 6th, 2011
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The Boston Globe bestseller list is once again topped by The Immortal Life. The Globe’s “Off the Shelf” blog notes that The Immortal Life “continues [...]
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