Yup - hard week - feeling pretty finite right now. Just a matter of
finding the right kind of nutrient though, I suspect.
AndrewF
On 14/05/2004, at 3:44 AM, Geilfuss Charles wrote:
> That's exactly right Andrew. The sine qua non of cancer cells is
> that they become "immortalized", ie. they have the ability to divide an
> endless number of times given the proper nutrients etc. Unlike
> non-cancerous, eukaryotic cells that are genetically programed to
> divide a
> finite number of times and then stop. Such is aging.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:15 PM
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> Subject: [OM] Re: OT Rabies (Was: difficult to photoraph...)
>
>
>
> 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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