A dying cancer cell with stringy protrusions called filopodia, extending to the right, that help cancer cells to migrate away from their original tumors. This is not a photo of a cell treated for ...

Then something amazing happened: the cancerous cells grew and continued to grow outside of her body. As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been ...

This video of a so-called HeLa cell dividing demonstrates how sensitive the cell division process is. While all is going well at the beginning of the video, as the clip nears its end you can see 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 ...