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4 unusual facts about HeLa


Cambridge Reference Sequence

Some of these were the result of contamination with bovine and HeLa specimens.

Finnish neopaganism

Various traditional festivals are followed, including Hela (a festival celebrating the coming of spring and the new growing season), Juhannus or Ukon juhla (the midsummer festival), Kekri (a celebration of harvest and the ancestors) and Joulu, the winter solstice.

Fryderyk Getkant

He was one of the engineers working on fortifications in Großendorf (Władysławowo) and at Hela where Pomerania and Royal Prussia meet, (now Hel Peninsula) together with Johann Pleitner.

Tumstatin

It has been shown to increase apoptosis in HUVEC cells as well as HeLa cells.


Balder Dead

Partly out of desperate grief - and partly in defiance of the harshness of the Norns or fates: Odin begs Hermod to ride his own steed, Sleipnir, down to Hell and beg Hela to release Balder.

Clonard Keating

When it came time to return to Lafagu, on October 9, Keating went with 14 of his troops to the island village of Hela, near Yelwa, for additional canoes.

Keating’s body was eventually recovered.and buried in the new British fort at Yelwa, a half mile away from Hela.

Ghoti people

Some surnames are specific only to Ghotis and Edeshis, like Ghosh,Adak, Adhikary, Bagui, Bhaduri,Bor or Bar, Daffadar, Dandapat,Dolui, De, Dey, Gorai, Guin, Chowdhury, Hazra, Hela, Jana, Karan, Karak, Karmakar, Kundu, Laha, Mahapatra, Maity, Middye, Modak, Nag, Nandi, Naskar, Nayak, Neogi, Paik, Pain, Pal, Panja, Patra, Sadhu, Sadhukhan, Samanta, Sardar, Sapui, Sasmal, Sett, She-al, Sinha, Tarafder, Topdar, Mihiracharyaa etc.

Hela Havula

Tirikunamale Ananda Anunayaka Thera, Fr. Marcelline Jayakody (poet, hymn writer), Arisen Ahubudu (poet), Jayantha Weerasekera (journalist), Jayamaha Wellala (poet), Hubert Dissanayake (poet) Alau Isi Sebi Hela (Writer), Ven.

Stanley Michael Gartler

HeLa, the first successfully established human cell line, was derived from a woman of African descent named Henrietta Lacks, so this result suggested that the cell lines were not truly independent, but had been contaminated by HeLa cells.


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