HeLa allowed researchers to study polio, measles, papilloma virus (HPV), HIV and tuberculosis; it was used to create the first human -
mouse cell hybrid, and even sent into space.
Not exact matches
Initial tests on
mice showed the
hybrid virus was very efficient: the gene it carried was active in 24 per cent of airway
cells after two months, a far better proportion than achieved by other delivery methods (New Scientist, 10 March 2001, p 19).
We identified c - Jun amino - terminal kinase 3 (JNK3) as a binding partner of β - arrestin 2 using a yeast two -
hybrid screen and by coimmunoprecipitation from
mouse brain extracts or cotransfected COS - 7
cells.
In research spanning 15 years, Yale University scientists merged white blood
cells with tumor
cells, leading to remarkably metastatic
hybrids that were lethal when implanted into
mice.
To measure whether the technique could diminish disease - causing mitochondrial mutations, the researchers created
hybrid cells by fusing
mouse eggs to human
cells that harbor either of two disease - causing defects.