Island Pharmaceuticals says Phase 2a/b top-line results advocate for continued clinical development of ISLA-101 in dengue virus ISLA-101 associated with meaningful reduction in viral load and ...

Though further research is needed to know for sure, there is a chance this mechanism is relevant to the Ebola virus, which uses the TIM-1 protein to access host cells, or to other pathogens in the ...

Vaccines. In the early 1950s, scientists learned they could grow large amounts of the virus that causes polio disease in HeLa cells. This gave them a better understanding of how the virus infected ...

HeLa cells are a vital tool in biomedical research and have led to an increased understanding of the fundamentals of human health and disease. Why are they important for scientific discoveries? The ...

These samples don’t exist in a vacuum. Notably, the HeLa cell line was initially taken from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Maryland who was being treated for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins ...

Her "immortal" cells—referred to as HeLa cells—have subsequently been used to cultivate a cell line that could replicate indefinitely under the right laboratory conditions and have been used ...

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. An image of so-called HeLa cells.

The cells in question were taken from Lacks without her knowledge or consent during cervical cancer surgery in the 1950s—a time when it was not illegal to do so. Dubbed the HeLa cell line, the cells ...

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 ...