As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been used in nearly every aspect of medical research since the polio vaccine. Millions owe their lives to it.

Even after all this time, these cells are still widely used in research. But the story of HeLa cells has a twist to it. This cell line that is so prevalent in research was established without the ...

Immortal cell lines, such as HeLa cells, are the backbone of many experiments conducted by today's cell and molecular biologists, but most of them give little thought to the origins of the ...

This could account for some reproducibility problems in cell line research, according to the authors of a comprehensive analysis of HeLa variants. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...

and now we have thousands of cell lines available which are the backbone of medical research. We call them 'HeLa' (from the initial letters of Henrietta's first and last names, pronounced as Hee ...

A Japanese research team has discovered a novel global cooperative phenomenon of cell interactions in cervical cancer cells.

It also claims that Ultragenyx was aware of the origins of the HeLa cell line, but never sought or received permission from the estate of Henrietta Lacks to use them. The biotech – which has a ...

The HeLa cells became the first 'immortalised human cell line' and have helped both save and create millions of lives ever since. Video by Dan John Animation by Lily Baker Iceland is one of the ...

They are accused of unauthorised commercialisation of the HeLa cell line, which has been used extensively in medical research and drug development for decades, without her or her family's consent.

Her cells began the very first immortal human cell line called the HeLa line. After the official unveiling, Lacks' wax figure ...