Henrietta Lacks' cells were essential in developing the polio vaccine and were used in scientific landmarks such as cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. Courtesy of the Lacks family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Bern made a big leap in lip research by successfully immortalizing lip cells from healthy and ...

Cancer biologists have an arsenal of tools and models that can be used to study different aspects of the disease. These models have distinct strengths and weaknesses. For example, immortal cell lines ...