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13 Dec 2010, 6:19 pm

Is anyone else interested in HeLa cells?
I began reading a book on them a few days ago and I am absolutely, 100% fascinated with them. Want to learn everything about them.
New special interest, possibly.

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13 Dec 2010, 8:43 pm

Immortality for Helen, of a sort. Lasting fame at least.

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14 Dec 2010, 4:08 am

Please eloborate...

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14 Dec 2010, 12:48 pm

I googled it because I wanted to make sure I remembered what I had learned over 30 years ago and was aggravated to see the name was Henrietta Lacks when I remembered it as Helen Lane. Well, this article explains a lot and mentions the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I remembered the name of the Hela cells as Helen Lane cancer cells because that's what they were called to provide privacy for Henrietta when I was a student.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... Cells.html

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14 Dec 2010, 7:54 pm

i think they are incredible. I don't know much of the science about them but i have grown some of henrietta lacks in a bottle and even used RNAi to knock out some of her genes. Muhahaha :lol:

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