Since being discovered in the 1950s, experiments on HeLa cells have played a role in developing advances like the polio and COVID-19 vaccines, treatments for cancer, HIV, AIDS, and much more.

Sloan Kettering immunologist Chester Southam wanted to see if the cells could infect other humans. He started with patients who already had cancer, injecting HeLa cells in their arms. The cells ...

“I’m glad to see this study, but in a sense, I’m not surprised,” says molecular biologist Prasad Jallepalli from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who wasn’t involved in the study. It’s not the ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE, MD - MARCH 28: Veronica Spencer, great granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells are some of the most important in medical research, poses at her home with a portrait of her ...

Henrietta Lacks’ story and the impact of HeLa cells In 1951, during her treatment for cervical cancer, samples of Henrietta Lacks’ cancer cells were taken without her or her family’s consent and given ...

During attempts to cure her shortly before she died, Lacks’ abnormally resilient cancer cells were removed ... confront an old problem The cells, dubbed HeLa for the first letters of her first ...

Both the multiphoton and TEM images of HeLa cells after incubation in the ... We have been able to simultaneously incorporate NHs and NTs in cancer cells. We have been also able to build up ...

Carter is the grandson of Henrietta Lacks. She is a Black woman whose cells changed the medical world. Lacks died from cervical cancer in 1951 after being part of a clinical trial she wasn't aware of.

This research field was to change forever when, in 1951, the cells taken from a cancer biopsy survived in culture. Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer from Virginia ...

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