HeLa cells can vary in size depending on the culture conditions, but they can grow to be as large as 40 micrometers across, or roughly half of the width of a human hair.

Then something amazing happened: the cancerous cells grew and continued to grow outside of her body. As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, cancer cells accumulate genetic mutations and acquire the ability to divide and grow indefinitely. HeLa cells are unique in many ways. The normal human cells contain 46 chromosomes ...

Within a week, Henrietta's cells were growing out of the biopsy with “mythological intensity,” and within eight months Henrietta was dead. But HeLa cells lived on and were distributed around ...

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 ...

allowing the cell to move, and much more. The actin network is dynamic, meaning that the filaments can either grow or shrink to fit the structural or movement requirements of the cell. Mitochondria ...

dubbed HeLa for the first letters of her first and last names, were the first-ever human cells to grow endlessly in the lab – all others harvested up to that point died. Research using the cells ...

HeLa cells exhibiting metabolic oscillations in different frequencies have weak causal interactions and form complex networks.