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HeLa (medicine)


HeLa
<cell culture, oncology> Referring to cells of the first continuously cultured (human cervical) carcinoma strain.

An established line of human epithelial cells derived from a cervical caracinoma (from a black American woman called Henrietta Lacks). In fact the cellular biomass now considerably exceeds that of Henrietta herself !

These cells are used for virus cultivation and antitumour drug screening assays.

Origin: Henrietta Lacks (d. 1951).