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 ...

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 ...

(WRIC) — The Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative is calling for drawings created by ... African American woman whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line. This became the first ...