Sentences with phrase «immortal cell line»

The most famous, oldest, and most commonly used immortal cell line, dubbed HeLa, originated in a tumor sample taken from an African - American woman, Henrietta Lacks, who is the subject of the recent book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.9 The tumor cells, harvested at Johns Hopkins Hospital, gave rise to the eponymous HeLa cell line which researchers have used continuously since her death in 1951 for numerous experiments, including Jonas Salk's development of the polio vaccine.

As an additional control we also tested the effect of amiodarone HCl on an immortal cell line 2102Ep cells [13].

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«Cell lines are an immortal, tissue - specific, physiologic test tube,» he says.

Until recently, Ain was renowned for a highly prized repository of 18 immortal cancer cell lines, which he developed by harvesting tissue from his patients» tumors after removal, carefully culturing them to everlasting life in vials.

«The beautiful thing,» Lanza says, «is that if you have an embryonic stem cell line that is O negative, because it's immortal you could create an unlimited amount of universal blood that would match virtually everybody, so you wouldn't have to worry about matching blood types.»

The grid structure is coated in Hela cells: a unique, «immortal» cell line that was originally derived from a cervical cancer patient in 1951.