Could we make food processing ‘smarter’?
UM-Dearborn professors are teaming up with Michigan State University to take the human guesswork out of modern food processing....
Join Us For Another Good R.E.A.D.
Please join us on Tuesday, Feb. 19, when R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat, and Discuss) discusses "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. Print and Kindle versions of this book are available at the library's circulation desk.
The meeting is from noon to 1 p.m. in room 1210 of the Mardigian Library. Light refreshments are provided!
Information about the book can be found at the author's website http://rebeccaskloot.com/
Summary from Amazon: "Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
“Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
“Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells."
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