Immortal Cells The “HeLa” cell line is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line in scientific research. They were used to test the first polio vaccine, instrumental in eradicating Polio. HeLa genes were some of the first ever mapped, which helped create the Human Genome Project – the discovery that humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. This immortal cell line, so called because the cells never die, was the first ever cloned, used to create cancer medications, the

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