Wednesday 18 August 2010

A HeLa of a lot of Trouble (in the Lab)


This picture was inspired when I came across an article about Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells - HeLa. These cells originated from the cervical cancer cells taken from Lacks. All this happened in 1951!! The cells are still in existence to this day, The article explained that there are now more of these HeLa cells than the body mass of Lacks. This got me thinking.
What if these cells were allowed to mutate and grow in one jar?
Could a human or a creature climb out of it?
The reality of course is NO, but that is what fiction is there for.

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