About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 20. Chapters: 3T3-L1, 3T3 cells, A431 cells, A549 cell, AB9, BCP-1 cells, C2C12, Caco-2, Chinese hamster ovary cell, COS cells, DU145, H1299, HaCaT, HEK cell, HeLa, Hep G2, High Five cells, HL60, J558L cells, Jurkat cells, JY cell line, K562 cells, LNCaP, MC3T3, MCF-7, P19 cell, PC12 cell line, PC3, Raji cell, RBL cells, S180, Saos-2 cells, Schneider 2 cells, Sf21, Sf9, SH-SY5Y, SKBR3, THP1 cell line, Tobacco BY-2 cells, U937 cell, Vero cell, VG-1. Excerpt: A HeLa cell, also Hela or hela cell, is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line. The line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951 from Henrietta Lacks, a patient who eventually died of her cancer on October 4, 1951. The cell line was found to be remarkably durable and prolific as illustrated by its contamination of many other cell lines used in research. HeLa cells stained with Hoechst 33258The cells were propagated by George Otto Gey shortly before Lacks died of her cancer in 1951. This was the first human cell line to prove successful in vitro, which was a scientific achievement with profound future benefit to medical research. Gey freely donated both the cells and the tools and processes his lab developed to any scientist requesting them, simply for the benefit of science. Neither Lacks or her family gave Lacks's physician permission to harvest the cells, but, at that time, permission was neither required or customarily sought. The cells were later commercialized, although never patented in their original form. Then, as now, there was no requirement to inform a patient, or their relatives, about such matters because discarded material, or material obtained during surgery, diagnosis, or therapy, was the property of the physician and/or medical institution (currently...
