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Apr 22, 2017 · Like guinea pigs and mice, Henrietta’s cells have become the standard laboratory workhorse. “HeLa cells were one of the most important things that happened to medicine in the last hundred ...
Rebecca_Skloot.jpg. Rebecca Skloot walked the red carpet, shoulder to shoulder with Oprah Winfrey, linking arms with actress Rose Byrne. She smiled radiantly in a silvery jumpsuit, easily blending into the Hollywood royalty flanking her as the cameras flashed. “Look right!” “Look left!” shouted the photographers inside the SVA Theatre ...
Feb 5, 2010 · By Rebecca Skloot Illustrated. 369 pp. Crown Publishers. $26 Lisa Margonelli is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of “Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long ...
Nov 22, 2011 · Rebecca Skloot Manda Townsend. Rebecca Skloot needs little introduction to most readers of The Open Notebook: Her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has been a bestseller since its publication in February 2010, and she has toured the U.S. and Europe almost constantly since then talking about the book and the many issues of race, science, and privacy it raises.
Excerpt – Rebecca Skloot. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks named by more than 60 critics, including New York Times, The New Yorker, People, USA Today, O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Boston Globe, Financial Times, and Los Angeles Times, as one of the best books of 2010.
Meet Rebecca. Rebecca Skloot is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which was made into an Emmy Nominated HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks, Renee Elise Goldsberry as Henrietta Lacks, and Rose Byrne as Rebecca Skloot. Her award winning science writing has appeared in The New York ...
Feb 2, 2010 · Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta's were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours ...
