No, her cancer cells were different allright, but they were cancerous and obtained from in vivo samples, not something transformed to cancer in vitro. And that's enough to make it better than anything else at the cancer studies subject.
And very much no, HeLa cells are not biohazard as far as I know, they are at most level 2 bio security, and that's not much. They are not infectious, they haven't been proved as such (inconclusive evidence either way). No one died of HeLa, except Henrietta.
They knew from the beginning that Henrietta's cells were different, shouldn't that have been a clue that they couldn't have stood in for ordinary tumor cells during experimentation?
It also begs the question of whether or not we will all eventually end up harboring, and later dying of HeLa cancer contamination?
No, her cancer cells were different allright, but they were cancerous and obtained from in vivo samples, not something transformed to cancer in vitro. And that's enough to make it better than anything else at the cancer studies subject.
And very much no, HeLa cells are not biohazard as far as I know, they are at most level 2 bio security, and that's not much. They are not infectious, they haven't been proved as such (inconclusive evidence either way). No one died of HeLa, except Henrietta.
DeltaYDeltaX 7 months ago
They knew from the beginning that Henrietta's cells were different, shouldn't that have been a clue that they couldn't have stood in for ordinary tumor cells during experimentation?
It also begs the question of whether or not we will all eventually end up harboring, and later dying of HeLa cancer contamination?
bitherwack 1 year ago