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.

These results were interpreted as reflecting widespread contamination of cultures by the first established human cell line HeLa. These findings were presented at the Second Decennial Review ...

This led scientists to call HeLa cells the first “immortal” line of human cells. Scientists around the world have used HeLa cells to drive different areas of medicine forward: Vaccines.

The immortal cells can grow and divide indefinitely, thus enabling a multitude of innovative and life-saving studies on human ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Saturday, March 15, the public is welcome to Morgan State University’s Behavioral and Social Sciences Center to see the ...