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...admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital and given a diagnosis of cervical cancer. During treatment, doctors removed a sample of her tumor and sent it to a research lab without her permission. Lacks died a few months later, but the sample lived on--and on and on. The strain, dubbed HeLa, was the first human tissue to be successfully kept alive as a culture. Since her death, Lacks' cells have been shot into space, infected with tuberculosis and zapped with radiation to test the effects of a nuclear bomb. HeLa helped develop the polio vaccine and drugs for everything from Parkinson...
...Army track team defeated Harvard, 78-57, across the river Saturday afternoon. However, team trainer Henry Jannergran's wife best described what beat the Crimson: "Hela laget var sjukt...
This new procedure should have tremendous impact on the growing field of membrane research. It has already been useful in the rapid isolation of membrane in mitochondria, HeLa cells and human red blood cells...
...University of Louisville researchers, Dr. Alex J. Steigman and Dr. Murray Lipton, have developed a color test to indicate whether a child is protected against polio. The method: Hela cells (easily grown cancer cells) are mixed with polio virus, an indicator dye and a blood sample. Incubated at 36° centigrade for a week, the mixture is then examined for color. If the child is fully protected, the mixture will be yellow; if not, red. The new method, say the Louisville doctors, is cheaper ($25) than previous tests, requires less time than tests using monkeys, and will enable many more...
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