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February 01, 2011

Human Papillomavirus: Driving Ms. HeLa, Henrietta Lack's Cells

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Inflammatory Language

No. 1: The Ongoing Cycle
No. 2: Interleukin, Schminterleukin
No. 3: Monocyte Fashion
No. 4: The Birth of a Monocyte
No. 5: The Rain in Spain...

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The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones: A Novel; Jack Wolf--NYJB
Prodigy: A Legend Novel; Marie Lu--NYJB
The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia; Finger--NYJB
Granta 120: Medicine; Freeman--NYJB
Why Millions Died: Before the War on Infectious Diseases; George Scherr--NYJB
The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination; Anderson, Barnes and Shackleton--NYJB
Bacteria: the Benign, the Bad and the Beautiful; Trudy Wassenaar--NYJB
The Origin of AIDS; Jacques Pepin--NYJB
Legend; Marie Lu--NYJB
Viruses: A Very Short Introduction; Dorothy Crawford--NYJB
Ashes, Ashes; Jo Treggiari--NYJB
Picture of Health; Edited by Colt, Quadrelli, Friedman--NYJB
The Alzheimer's Solution; Kenneth Kosik--Yahoo!
Blood Work; Holly Tucker--NYJB