It provides a high-resolution genomic reference that reveals the striking differences between the HeLa genome and that of normal human cells. The study could improve the way HeLa cells are used to ...

According to the investigators, their results provide a high-resolution genomic reference that reveals the striking differences between the HeLa genome and that of normal human cells. The study ...

A normal human cell has 46 chromosomes — HeLa cells tends to have between 70 and 90. According to some scientists, the HeLa cell line should properly be considered its own species. It is a sort ...

Our knowledge of every fundamental process that occurs in human cells — whether normal or abnormal — has depended to a large extent on using HeLa and other cell lines as a model system.

In 1896, E. B. Wilson defined the cell as the basis of the life of all organisms. Subsequent discoveries in enzymology and molecular biology demonstrated the unity of life: the basic machinery is ...

The HeLa cells survived ... inserting its DNA into normal cells and forcing them to produce proteins that ultimately lead to cancer. In Lacks’s case, the virus entered the cells and turned ...

Unlike the HeLa cell line named after her, Henrietta Lacks was little heard of until the 2010 publication of Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920 in Virginia, ...

Moreover, not all HeLa cells are identical ... that around 2000 genes are expressed at levels higher than those of normal human tissues because of the duplications. Alternative cell lines ...

As a cancer researcher who uses HeLa cells in my everyday work, even I sometimes find it hard to believe. On Aug. 1, 2023, over 70 years after doctors took Lacks’ cells without her consent or ...

A detailed DNA profile of the world’s most widely used cancer cell line sheds light on the genetic chaos the cells use to grow virtually unchecked in laboratory cultures. That property may also ...

But most cells die or make limited copies of themselves after they’re removed from the body by a doctor or a scientist. HeLa cells were the first human cells that researchers could grow and ...