What made HeLa Cells different?

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What made hela cells different from other cancer cells?

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Answer 1

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I guess one way that Hela cells are unique is that they contain integrated human papilloma virus DNA. HPV-18 is a major cause of cervical cancer, the cancer that killed Henrietta Lacks, and from which the Hela cell line was derived.

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