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 ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, led by Dr. Helin Norberg and Dr. Erik Norberg, have identified a previously unknown ...

By assessing how "sticky" tumor cells are, researchers at the University of California San Diego have found a potential way ...

Henrietta Lacks' cells are responsible for boundless biotechnological advancements in the medical world. Morgan State University and the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum are partnering to honor ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to better capture how healthy cells surrounding tumors influence cancer cell behavior and how those interactions can inform treatments.

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them ...

It further asserts that Ultragenyx has "made a fortune by using Mrs Lacks's stolen cells as a factory to make its 'proprietary' gene therapy products." The case centres around the use of HeLa ...

Cancer cells do, too. Small extracellular vesicles that are shed from tumor cells contribute to how cancer spreads to healthy tissue. These small messengers could be a key to developing new cancer ...

The word "cancer" often brings fear, as it can affect anyone and, if left untreated, can become life-threatening. One of the ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden driver of ovarian cancer—high-risk mesenchymal stem cells lurking in the fallopian tubes.