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“Rebecca Skloot has written a marvelous book so original that it defies easy description ... It’s part The Wire, part The Lives of the Cell, and all fascinating.”
—CARL ZIMMER, author of Microcosm
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Archive for the ‘Medicine & Health’ Category

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

More Assistance Creature Follow Up – The History of Service Monkeys, Plus Monkey Waiters

The history of service monkeys with links to early studies, archival video footage (even monkey waiters)

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

More Follow Up on NYT Story About Assistance Creatures

More follow up on miniature guide horses, monkeys for paraplegics, and parrots for psychotics: Photos, video, etc.

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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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