The estate of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court on Thursday accusing biopharmaceutical company Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical of unlawfully profiting from cells that were taken ...

The HeLa cell line was used to test the first polio vaccine, develop a treatment for sickle cell anemia and create the first vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV. expand An image of so-called ...

HeLa cells, named after Henrietta Lacks, ... is suing a pharmaceutical company profiting off her cell line, ... and the ability to isolate the human immunodeficiency virus, ...

Although no one asked Lacks or her family for permission to perform experiments with the cells, they formed the first immortal human cell line ever successfully grown in the lab. HeLa cells were ...

For the first time, the extreme variability in dengue fever has been linked to a biological mechanism, potentially opening ...

HeLa cells are not the only immortal cell line from human cells, but they were the first. Today new immortal cell lines can either be discovered by chance, as Lacks’s were, or produced through ...

These works were published on line in the journal Cell Host & Microbe on October 18, 2012. The Dengue virus circulates in four different forms (four serotypes). It is transmitted to humans by ...

A virus that reproduces in a host without killing cells can easily establish a successful infection. Previously, we showed that dengue-2, a virus that threatens 40% of the world, induces autophagy ...

The estate of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court on Thursday accusing biopharmaceutical company Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical of unlawfully profiting from cells that were taken ...