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.

Earle, along with colleagues Katherine Sanford and G.D. Likely, reported in 1948 that they had established "clone cultures" from single cells. Several years later, Earle received immortal "HeLa" cells ...

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.

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

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 ...

But the story of HeLa cells has a twist to it. This cell line that is so prevalent in research was established without the consent of Henrietta Lacks or her family. In 2010, a book titled The Immortal ...

They continued to do so for weeks and months, becoming the first human cell line to survive ... discovery of HeLa cells, scientists have learnt ways to 'make' normal cells immortal, but HeLa ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca ... person who has not been touched by Henrietta’s cells in some way. Called HeLa in the lab, research with the cell line has led to some of history’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 In a first-of-its-kind ...