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May 25, 2003
Cells that just won't die
Old news to some but new to me, much human cell research is performed on one woman's cancer cells that refuse to die. "Hela" cells, as they are known, have reproduced in the lab so much since their progenitor died in 1951 that there is much more biomass of the cells today in existance than there ever was of the woman. Apparently the cells do not contain the "death gene" that causes a cell to voluntarily die.
Posted by elise on May 25, 2003 to Science
