This video of a so-called HeLa cell dividing demonstrates how sensitive the cell division process is. While all is going well at the beginning of the video, as the clip nears its end you can see the ...

separating the parent cell into its two daughter cells. A HeLa cell can range from 20 micrometers to 40 micrometers across, or roughly a quarter to half the width of a human hair, while actin ...

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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 ...

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Unlike every other previous sample of human cells, these continued to grow and multiply and still do so today. The HeLa cells became the first 'immortalised human cell line' and have helped both ...

Regarded from the perspective of expanding the knowledge base, there can be little doubt that the discovery and exploitation ...

In honor of Black History Month, we're covering five milestones in Black health history, from the good and great to the bad and ...