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Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Cell Culture Contamination

2009-09-01

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Abstract Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 of an aggressive adenocarcinoma of the cervix. A tissue biopsy obtained for diagnostic evaluation yielded additional tissue for Dr George O. Gey's tissue culture laboratory at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, Maryland). The cancer cells, now called HeLa cells, grew rapidly in cell culture and became the first human cell line. HeLa cells were used by researchers around the world. Howe...

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Literature Corpus work: 29329645-84ee-5a46-a091-cfe134282dac
DOI: 10.5858/133.9.1463

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