Hela cells are the first continuous human cancer cell line grown in a petri dish which were cultivated out of Henrietta Lacks in 1951. Henrietta Lacks was a 30-year-old black woman from Baltimore who suffered from a severe glandular cervical cancer. Those cells were ripped out of her body by a research group at the Johns Hopkins Hospital without her permission, because there was a tough competition to be the first to solve the mystery of cancer. This cell line has been distributed worldwide which was discovered 20 years later by Mrs Lacks' children, causing today's requirement for a consent document to take research samples. In times of extensive use of Hela cells they caused another fraudulent fact, namely it turned out that cell lines were not what they claimed to be, caused by the careless mixing up of cells in laboratories , which resulted in massive numbers of publications on the basis of false data. Now the problem is already widely known, but cell lines are still left unchecked.
Clear single focus on the cell lines. Good flow. Accurate account: well done!
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