{"id":123002,"date":"2021-05-25T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/hela-hela-cells-are-said-to-able-to-divide-an-unlimited-number-of-times-leading-to-cellular-immortality"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:23:08","slug":"hela-hela-cells-are-said-to-able-to-divide-an-unlimited-number-of-times-leading-to-cellular-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/hela-hela-cells-are-said-to-able-to-divide-an-unlimited-number-of-times-leading-to-cellular-immortality","title":{"rendered":"HeLa: HeLa cells are said to able to divide an unlimited number of times leading to cellular immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hela2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>HeLa<\/b> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help: IPA\/English\" title=\"Help: IPA\/English\">\/ \u02c8 h i\u02d0 l \u0251\u02d0 \/<\/a> ; also <b>Hela<\/b> or <b>hela<\/b>) is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Immortalised_cell_line\" title=\"Immortalised cell line\">immortal cell line<\/a> used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line.<sup id= cite_ref-pmid19450234_1-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HeLa#cite_note-pmid19450234-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> The line is named after and derived from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cervical_cancer\" title=\"Cervical cancer\">cervical cancer<\/a> cells taken on February 8, 1951,<sup id= cite_ref-pmid13052828_2-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HeLa#cite_note-pmid13052828-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henrietta_Lacks\" title=\"Henrietta Lacks\">Henrietta Lacks<\/a>, a 31-year-old African-American mother of five, who died of cancer on October 4, 1951.<sup id= cite_ref-3 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HeLa#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> The cell line was found to be remarkably durable and prolific, which allows it to be used extensively in scientific study.<sup id= cite_ref-pmid20143388_4-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HeLa#cite_note-pmid20143388-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup id= cite_ref-vpbio_5-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HeLa#cite_note-vpbio-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic HeLa cell. Zeiss Merlin HR-SEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HeLa (\/ \u02c8 h i\u02d0 l \u0251\u02d0 \/ ; also Hela or hela) is an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line.[1] The line is named after and derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951,[2] from Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African-American [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}