As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been used in nearly every aspect of medical research since the polio vaccine. Millions owe their lives to it.

have filed a lawsuit against one of the companies that commercialized the cell line. In the suit, filed today (October 4), they argue that pharmaceutical giant Thermo Fisher Scientific continued to ...

It also claims that Ultragenyx was aware of the origins of the HeLa cell line, but never sought or received permission from the estate of Henrietta Lacks to use them. The biotech – which has a ...

HeLa cells are human cells that were derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a cancer patient in 1951. They are the first immortal human cell line and have been a vital tool in medical research.

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 ...

Her cells began the very first immortal human cell line called the HeLa line. After the official unveiling, Lacks’ wax figure will be moved to permanently reside at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

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 ...

and now we have thousands of cell lines available which are the backbone of medical research. We call them 'HeLa' (from the initial letters of Henrietta's first and last names, pronounced as Hee ...

They are accused of unauthorised commercialisation of the HeLa cell line, which has been used extensively in medical research and drug development for decades, without her or her family's consent.