HeLa

Summary

HeLa is a cancer cell line^[1]. HeLa draws 2,760 Wikipedia views per month (cancer_cell_line category, ranking #1 of 1).^[2]

Key Facts

• HeLa is credited with the discovery of George Otto Gey^[3].
• HeLa's video is recorded as Plasma Membrane and Nuclear Envelope.gif^[4].
• HeLa's image is recorded as HeLa cells stained with antibody to actin (green) , vimentin (red) and DNA (blue).jpg^[5].
• HeLa's image is recorded as HeLa-V.jpg^[6].
• HeLa's instance of is recorded as cancer cell line^[7].
• HeLa's instance of is recorded as cell line^[8].
• Henrietta Lacks is named after HeLa^[9].
• HeLa's Commons category is recorded as HeLa cells^[10].
• HeLa's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D006367^[11].
• HeLa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01w02s^[12].
• HeLa's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.251.210.190.400^[13].
• HeLa's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.251.860.180.400^[14].
• HeLa's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.436.340^[15].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Large-scale characterization of HeLa cell nuclear phosphoproteins^[16].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as The haplotype-resolved genome and epigenome of the aneuploid HeLa cancer cell line^[17].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Deep proteome and transcriptome mapping of a human cancer cell line^[18].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Presence and expression of human papillomavirus sequences in human cervical carcinoma cell lines^[19].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Integration sites of human papillomavirus 18 DNA sequences on HeLa cell chromosomes^[20].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as In vitro response of cervical cancer cell lines CaSki, HeLa, and ME-180 to the antiestrogen tamoxifen^[21].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Human tumor lines for cancer research^[22].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as George Otto Gey. (1899-1970). The HeLa cell and a reappraisal of its origin^[23].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Distinction of seventy-one cultured human tumor cell lines by polymorphic enzyme analysis.^[24].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Correlation between HPV positivity and state of the p53 gene in cervical carcinoma cell lines^[25].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as Comprehensive and definitive molecular cytogenetic characterization of HeLa cells by spectral karyotyping^[26].
• HeLa's described by source is recorded as HeLa cells 50 years on: the good, the bad and the ugly^[27].

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Works and Contributions

HeLa is credited with the discovery of George Otto Gey^[3].

Why It Matters

HeLa draws 2,760 Wikipedia views per month (cancer_cell_line category, ranking #1 of 1).^[2] HeLa has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] HeLa is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]