HeLa cells are unique in many ways. The normal human cells contain 46 chromosomes, while HeLa cells have been shown to contain between 75-82 chromosomes, and cells vary considerably between ...

HeLa cells can have anywhere from 76 to 80 chromosomes. Normal human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46. These changes impacted many of the hard-coded genetic “programs” that ...

Indeed, HeLa cells were so robust that they contaminated many other cell cultures and were responsible for erroneous observations that normal cells became malignant with time in culture.

These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...

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 ...

HeLa cells are human cells that were derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a cancer patient in 1951. They are the first immortal human cell line and have been a vital tool in medical research.