The HeLa line was immediately put to use. Jonas Salk found that the cells were perfect for testing his polio vaccine. The first ever cell factory was created at Tuskegee University to keep Salk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...