In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...

Growing cells outside the body began in 1907 with the work of Ross Harrison at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and continued in the hands of Alexis Carrel and Montrose Burrows at the Rockefeller ...

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 ...

These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...

Your body is made of cells -- trillions of them. Cells are the basic building blocks of people and all other living things. Researchers study them to learn more about health and diseases.

HeLa cells are human cells that were derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a cancer patient in 1951. They are the first immortal human cell line and have been a vital tool in medical research.

More so than ever, the eyes of the world are on medical research. The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a worldwide quest for a vaccine to protect us against Covid-19, as well as for methods to ...

Actin proteins group together to form a network of thin filaments that spread throughout eukaryotic cells. These filaments are involved in giving the cell its structure, allowing the cell to move, and ...