That's an unusual kind of immortality I suppose.
AndrewF
On 12/05/2004, at 11:10 PM, Geilfuss Charles wrote:
>
> Greg,
> Most likely HeLa cell line. Commonly used to culture viruses.
> Derived from a cervical carcinoma from a patient named Henrietta Lacks
> hence
> "HeLa". Used to use these when I worked in a Biochemistry lab in my
> pre-OM
> days.
>
> Charlie
>
> ...The current vaccine is grown on a human diploid cell line in
> culture (the
>
> culture of substrate cells has twice the normal number of human
> chromosomes,
>
> harvested from a lady's tumor many years ago, forgot what the type
> was)...
>
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