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== HeLa has helped build thousands of careers, not to mention more than 60,000 scientific studies, with nearly 10 more being published every day, revealing the secrets of everything from aging and cancer to mosquito mating and the cellular effects of working in sewers [[|//The New York Times//]]. ==

=When cell lines are used in the lab, scientists often work with HeLa cells. They can live in a vial of nutrients, and from a small sample you can grow a large quantity to use in cancer research, invitro fertilization research, stem cell research, virus research, almost any kind of human biology research.=



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