[DryFly]

Just finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, a wonderful biography of Louie Zamperini - juvenile delinquent, Olympic runner, B-24 bombardier, prisoner in Japanese POW camps for over 2 1/2 years, and convert to Christ who returned to Japan with a message of forgiveness. One of the best "regular Joe" biographies I have ever read.

Just started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the story of a black woman who, unbeknownst to her and her family, donated cervical cancer cells to science shortly before her death. From that small sample, scientists around the world cultured so many tissue samples for use in research that if you could pile all of the "HeLa" cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons — more than 100 Empire State Buildings. Fascinating stuff.

[Tax-chick]

My husband just read the Zamperini bio. It’s on his Kindle, though, so I’ll have to get the dead tree version from the library.

[nina0113]

Just started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the story of a black woman who, unbeknownst to her and her family, donated cervical cancer cells to science shortly before her death. From that small sample, scientists around the world cultured so many tissue samples for use in research that if you could pile all of the "HeLa" cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons — more than 100 Empire State Buildings. Fascinating stuff.

I finished that about a month ago. Fascinating indeed, esp. with a sib in the medical research field.