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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 the ‘Weird Science’ Category

Friday, February 6th, 2009

‘Living Doll’ Made of Human Cancer Cells

Researchers have grown a “Living Doll” that looks like some strange mix between Gumbi and a gingerbread man but is actually made of living cancer cells.


Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Halucinate Without Drugs – AKA Fun With Neuroscience

Wouldn’t it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break without all those pesky drugs? Here’s how.


Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Study Finds Egg In The Face Can Be Dangerous

Researchers in Liverpool have announced that “being pelted by a raw egg may result in eye injury.”


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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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