Currently I'm reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (non-fiction) about the creation of the first immortal human cell line and all the biopolitics and social injustice that came with it. It's really an amazing story. The HeLa line, as the cell line from Henrietta Lacks was called, is most used cell line in science but no one really knows her and her family's story.
In the fiction side, I'm reading Adverbs by Daniel Handler (better known as Lemony Snicket. It's a collection of vignettes about love, falling in love, falling out of love, etc. It's an interesting read and Handler has a very distinctive style.
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Date: 2010-06-06 09:46 pm (UTC)Currently I'm reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (non-fiction) about the creation of the first immortal human cell line and all the biopolitics and social injustice that came with it. It's really an amazing story. The HeLa line, as the cell line from Henrietta Lacks was called, is most used cell line in science but no one really knows her and her family's story.
In the fiction side, I'm reading Adverbs by Daniel Handler (better known as Lemony Snicket. It's a collection of vignettes about love, falling in love, falling out of love, etc. It's an interesting read and Handler has a very distinctive style.