The circumstances surrounding the creation of the HeLa cell line are now well known. The best-selling book by Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot 2010), detailed both the creation of the cell line and the associated ethical and social controversies. The Skloot book received a great deal of praise and media attention–which often used the book to surface a range of ethica...

Isolation and identification of some potent anti-tumor compounds from medicinal plants, has motivated researchers to screen different parts of plant species for anti-tumor effects. It has been reported that several conifer posses cytotoxic activities on some human tumor cell lines. In this study, male and female branchlets or fruit of four different species of Iranian conifers (Juniperus Sabina...

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 Objektif: Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan mengetahui apakah ekstrak mampu 50% HeLa cell line.
 Metode: eksperimental in vitro menggunakan line d...

background: the rh antigens are expressed as parts of a protein complex in the rbc membrane. this complex is a tetramer, consisting of two molecules of rhag and two molecules of rh proteins. to express rhd in rbc membrane, expression of rhag is essential. this co-expression only occurs in the erythroid lineage. k562 cell line has an erythroid lineage. materials and methods: cord blood was used ...

Objective: Bryonia aspera (Stev. ex Ledeb) is a plant that grows in northeast of Iran. In the present study, cytotoxic and apoptogenic properties of B. aspera root extract was determined against HN-5(head and neck squamous cell carcinoma) and Hela (cervix adenocarcinoma) cell lines. Materials and Methods: HN-5 and Hela cell lines were cultured in DMEM medium and incubated with different concent...