[extropy-chat] telomerase immortalized cell lines

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Henrietta Lacks seems more familiar to me too.

What is remembered and what is not.........what I associate with He La 
is the incident when leonard hayflick
used a marker to change the coat colors of mice to make the data fit his 
theory.
History has forgiven him for that little piece of fraud in comparison to 
his discovery the "hayflick number".

Brett Paatsch wrote:

> The Avantguardian wrote:
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>> ... Helen Lang died of
>> ovarian cancer several decades ago but her cancer
>> cells now called Hela cells are in common use in labs
>> throughout the world where they thrive.
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> This Helen Lang story seems to have acquired legs due to the
> He La letters. There are researchers at Melbourne Uni that
> think the derivation is the same. Yet I'd heard from what I took
> to be a reliable source that the woman's actual name was Henrietta 
> Lacks. A black woman. Urban myths can obviously
> find a place amongst lab researchers too. 
> Brett Paatsch
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