By Dale King The Wick Theatre has jumped into its second season in grand fashion with a pumped-up production of Swing!, a musical tribute to the era of big-name jazz and high-stepping dance. The show, featuring an on-stage, eight-piece live band, runs through mid-November at the venue on North Federal Highway in Boca Raton. Swing! celebrates the music of various artists who … [Read more...]
Tale of cell line’s ‘mother’ astonishes
Before the publication of this book, few people other than scientists had ever heard of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman who died of cancer in 1951. Lacks was a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore when doctors, without her knowledge or consent, sliced cancerous tissue from her cervix for research purposes. To the astonishment of scientists, the cancer cells began … [Read more...]