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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Event Name: Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks=0D=0AEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441479891=0D=0AEvent Date Begin: 2012-04-25=0D=0AEvent Date End: 2012-04-25=0D=0A=0D=0AAward-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot has made a career of probing the intersections between hard science and human experience; the resulting stories have been as varied as cellular research and cancer, medical care for pet goldfish, and the science behind personal motivation. In her bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951 and left behind an inexplicably immortal line of cells known as HeLa.=0D=0A=0D=0AStart time:7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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