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 ...

The team discovered a novel global cooperative phenomenon, a hidden causal interaction network, in monolayers of HeLa cervical cancer cells that exhibited metabolic oscillations. HeLa cells are ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a bizarre new “explanation” for the deadly measles outbreak sweeping western Texas. According to public health experts, the country’s worst measles outbreak in years is being ...

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 ...

The case centres around the use of HeLa cells, which were derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Lacks more than 70 years ago and became the first cells able to be grown continuously in 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 ...

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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 ...

Novartis and Viatris have become the latest pharma companies to be named in lawsuits claiming that they profited from the unlawful use of HeLa cells derived from cells taken from a cancer patient ...

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 ...