I loved the book because the story was true and it was about an important infectious disease (Ebola). There was more depth and information than I could find in the mainstream media and I could relate to the story and the danger exposure to the virus posed. It kept me on the seat of my "hot" pants!
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.
Now a mini-series drama starring Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham, James D'Arcy, and Noah Emmerich on National Geographic.
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of…
I was first introduced to HeLa cells as a mainstay of lab work. I was told that HeLa was an abbreviation for the donor, Helen Lane. That's what I believed for thirty years until...this book came out. This is an important book about science and consent. I have dealt with both and am glad this book set the record straight!
With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .
Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world for ever. Balancing the beauty and drama…
Lab Girl is a memoir that is similar to my own journey in terms of intensity and immersion. I could relate to it and showed the importance of following your dream and the benefits of deep and lengthy investigation.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER •NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist.
"Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.” —The New York Times
In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary…
“You’ll read about life on remote Pacific Islands, low-tech ways of raising children, learning from one’s mistakes, how to start out naïve and still succeed, and how to morph from an impoverished powerless student into an affluent powerful executive. Of course, you’ll also learn a lot about sex.” —Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel In the 1970s, Betsy, a twenty-something anthropology grad student, wins a summer grant to a remote Melanesian island once known for cannibalism. She finds no running water, no electricity, and no Western medicine, and the trip changes her course. She returns for two years to uncover how infants become chronic carriers of hepatitis B, building a field lab to collect and test blood in the tropical jungle, all while the islands push toward independence as the new nation of Vanuatu. Back home, she confronts academia’s boys’ club, then tries teaching and advertising before finding her place in biotech. Her nerve and appetite for risk carry her to the executive suite of a major Swiss pharmaceutical company and into the boardrooms of scrappy startups. Funny, honest, and full of adventure, this award-winning memoir of a woman in science takes readers from island villages to Big Pharma. Winner of multiple awards including: The Paris Book Fest, LA Book Fest, Indie Reader, International Impact Award, Readers Favorite for Memoir, Coming of Age, Culture. Reached Best Seller List in Biotechnology.
