NIH Photo of the Day: A HeLa Cell Self-Destructs

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[EnjoyingLife]

1024 x 775, 1500 x 1137, 2000 x 1515, 3200 x 2424. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-201402.htm

[Paul46360]

OK???? what ya trying to say?

[sr4402]

Is this due to some kind of treatment or breakthrough?

[originalbuckeye]

Awesome picture! Thanks!

[Hot Tabasco]

Looks like something I saw on SyFy’s Helix a couple weeks ago.......

[nicolezmomma]

I wish there was more information. The “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is a great book about HeLa cells and the woman the cells came from.

[Ken522]

Henrietta Lacks is commin’ back, baby!

[muir_redwoods]

The HeLa story is amazing. There’s obviously more to learn about cell biology

[MaxMax]

Very cool. That's a cell, now imagine the cells that make up those cells, and in and in Etc.
Where would it stop? Even the energy has a makeup inside of it.

[deks]

It appears that EnjoyingLife does not like to chat. . .

HeLa genome offers clues to cells’ cancerous nature - Genetic sequence published along with agreement to protect family’s privacy

September 7, 2013

A detailed DNA profile of the world’s most widely used cancer cell line sheds light on the genetic chaos the cells use to grow virtually unchecked in laboratory cultures. That property may also explain their virulent growth in the woman who unwittingly left them to science.

The famous cells came from a biopsy taken in 1951, when Henrietta Lacks was dying from cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Although no one asked Lacks or her family for permission to perform experiments with the cells, they formed the first immortal human cell line ever successfully grown in the lab. HeLa cells were pivotal in developing a vaccine for polio, among other scientific milestones.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hela-genome-offers-clues-cells’-cancerous-nature

[Louis Foxwell]

This is so clearly a case necessitating the arbitrary and capricious manipulations of H Obama, the president who can do whatever he wants to do.