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82 relations: ABC World News Tonight, Adam Curtis, Apoptosis, ATCC (company), Baltimore City Paper, C57BL/6, Cancer research, Canine distemper, Cell (biology), Cell biology, Cell culture, Cellular senescence, Cervical cancer, Chromosome, Cisplatin, Clonally transmissible cancer, Cold War, Comparative genomic hybridization, EnCor Biotechnology, Estradiol, Estrogen, Estrogen receptor, Fluorescence in situ hybridization, Fluoxetine, Francis Collins, Fullerene, Gene mapping, Genome, George Otto Gey, Hannah Landecker, Hayflick limit, Henrietta Lacks, Heptamethine dyes, Hoechst stain, Horizontal gene transfer, Human, Human papillomavirus infection, Immortalised cell line, In vitro, Incertae sedis, Indiana University Press, Irradiation, Jay Shendure, Jonas Salk, Karyotype, Ki-67 (protein), Leigh Van Valen, List of contaminated cell lines, March of Dimes, Microtubule, ..., Moore v. Regents of the University of California, National Institutes of Health, Oropouche virus, Parvovirus, Personalized medicine, Philip I. Marcus, Photodynamic therapy, Phytochemical, Polio vaccine, Poliomyelitis, Quercetin, Rebecca Skloot, Richard Nixon, RNAi-Based Identification System and interference of Specific Cancer Cells, Senescence, Sequencing, Stanley Michael Gartler, Strain (biology), Supreme Court of California, Telomerase, Telomere, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (film), The Scientist (magazine), The Seattle Times, Theodore Puck, Tubulin, Tuskegee University, Walter Nelson-Rees, War on Cancer, WI-38, Xenotransplantation. Expand index (32 more) »
ABC World News Tonight
ABC World News Tonight (titled as ABC World News Tonight with David Muir for its weeknight broadcasts since September 2014 and simply ABC World News Tonight for its weekend broadcasts) is the flagship daily evening television news program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network in the United States.
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Adam Curtis
Kevin Adam Curtis (born 26 May 1955) is a British documentary film-maker.
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Apoptosis
Apoptosis (from Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις "falling off") is a process of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms.
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ATCC (company)
ATCC or the American Type Culture Collection is a nonprofit organization which collects, stores, and distributes standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research and development.
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Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City Paper was a free alternative weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1977 by Russ Smith and Alan Hirsch.
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C57BL/6
C57BL/6, often referred to as "C57 black 6", "C57" or "black 6" (standard abbreviation: B6), is a common inbred strain of laboratory mouse.
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Cancer research
Cancer research is research into cancer to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure.
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Canine distemper
Canine distemper (sometimes termed hardpad disease) is a viral disease that affects a wide variety of animal families, including domestic and wild species of dogs, coyotes, foxes, pandas, wolves, ferrets, skunks, raccoons, and large cats, as well as pinnipeds, some primates, and a variety of other species.
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Cell (biology)
The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
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Cell biology
Cell biology (also called cytology, from the Greek κυτος, kytos, "vessel") is a branch of biology that studies the structure and function of the cell, the basic unit of life.
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Cell culture
Cell culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside their natural environment.
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Cellular senescence
Cellular senescence is one phenomenon by which normal cells cease to divide.
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Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is a cancer arising from the cervix.
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Chromosome
A chromosome (from Ancient Greek: χρωμόσωμα, chromosoma, chroma means colour, soma means body) is a DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material (genome) of an organism.
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Cisplatin
Cisplatin is a chemotherapy medication used to treat a number of cancers.
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Clonally transmissible cancer
A transmissible cancer is a cancer cell or cluster of cancer cells that can be transferred between individuals without the involvement of an infectious agent, such as an oncovirus.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Comparative genomic hybridization
Comparative genomic hybridization is a molecular cytogenetic method for analysing copy number variations (CNVs) relative to ploidy level in the DNA of a test sample compared to a reference sample, without the need for culturing cells.
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EnCor Biotechnology
EnCor Biotechnology is a United States company that manufactures antibodies to neural and yeast proteins.
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Estradiol
Estradiol (E2), also spelled oestradiol, is an estrogen steroid hormone and the major female sex hormone.
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Estrogen
Estrogen, or oestrogen, is the primary female sex hormone.
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Estrogen receptor
Estrogen receptors (ERs) are a group of proteins found inside cells.
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization
Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) is a molecular cytogenetic technique that uses fluorescent probes that bind to only those parts of the chromosome with a high degree of sequence complementarity.
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Fluoxetine
Fluoxetine, also known by trade names Prozac and Sarafem, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class.
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Francis Collins
Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.
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Fullerene
A fullerene is a molecule of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, and many other shapes.
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Gene mapping
Gene mapping describes the methods used to identify the locus of a gene and the distances between genes.
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Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism.
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George Otto Gey
George Otto Gey (July 6, 1899 – November 8, 1970) was the cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital who is credited with propagating the HeLa cell line.
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Hannah Landecker
Hannah Landecker is an author and Professor of Sociology at UCLA.
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Hayflick limit
The Hayflick limit or Hayflick phenomenon is the number of times a normal human cell population will divide before cell division stops.
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Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) Note: Some sources report her birthday as August 2, 1920, vs.
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Heptamethine dyes
Heptamethine dyes are a subclass of chemical compounds within the cyanine dye family and have many uses as fluorescent dyes, particularly in biomedical imaging, the development of theranostics, the individualized treatment of cancerous patients with the aid of PDT, co-administration with other drugs, and irradiation.
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Hoechst stain
Hoechst stains are part of a family of blue fluorescent dyes used to stain DNA.
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Horizontal gene transfer
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between unicellular and/or multicellular organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission of DNA from parent to offspring.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Human papillomavirus infection
Human papillomavirus infection is an infection by human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Immortalised cell line
An immortalized cell line is a population of cells from a multicellular organism which would normally not proliferate indefinitely but, due to mutation, have evaded normal cellular senescence and instead can keep undergoing division.
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In vitro
In vitro (meaning: in the glass) studies are performed with microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules outside their normal biological context.
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Incertae sedis
Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Irradiation
Irradiation is the process by which an object is exposed to radiation.
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Jay Shendure
Jay Shendure is an American scientist and human geneticist at the University of Washington.
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Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist.
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Karyotype
A karyotype is the number and appearance of chromosomes in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.
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Ki-67 (protein)
Antigen KI-67 also known as Ki-67 or MKI67 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MKI67 gene (antigen identified by monoclonal antibody Ki-67).
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Leigh Van Valen
Leigh Van Valen (August 12, 1935 – October 16, 2010) was a U.S. evolutionary biologist.
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List of contaminated cell lines
Many cell lines that are widely used for biomedical research have been contaminated and overgrown by other, more aggressive cells.
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March of Dimes
March of Dimes is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.
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Microtubule
Microtubules are tubular polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton that provides the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and some bacteria with structure and shape.
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Moore v. Regents of the University of California
Moore v. Regents of the University of California was a landmark Supreme Court of California decision.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.
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Oropouche virus
The Oropouche virus (OROV) is one of the most common orthobunyaviruses.
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Parvovirus
Parvovirus is the common name applied to all the viruses in the Parvoviridae taxonomic family.
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Personalized medicine
Personalized medicine, also termed precision medicine, is a medical procedure that separates patients into different groups—with medical decisions, practices, interventions and/or products being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response or risk of disease.
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Philip I. Marcus
Philip I. Marcus (June 3, 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts – September 1, 2013 in Farmington, Connecticut) was an American virologist and a leader in interferon research.
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Photodynamic therapy
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), sometimes called photochemotherapy, is a form of phototherapy involving light and a photosensitizing chemical substance, used in conjunction with molecular oxygen to elicit cell death (phototoxicity).
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Phytochemical
Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, generally to help them thrive or thwart competitors, predators, or pathogens.
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Polio vaccine
Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio).
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Poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.
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Quercetin
Quercetin, a plant flavonol from the flavonoid group of polyphenols, is found in many fruits, vegetables, leaves, and grains; red onions and kale are common foods containing appreciable content of quercetin.
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Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca L. Skloot (born September 19, 1972) is a freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
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RNAi-Based Identification System and interference of Specific Cancer Cells
A “classifier” was created to classify cells by identifying specific characteristics of Cervical Cancer.
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Senescence
Senescence or biological ageing is the gradual deterioration of function characteristic of most complex lifeforms, arguably found in all biological kingdoms, that on the level of the organism increases mortality after maturation.
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Sequencing
In genetics and biochemistry, sequencing means to determine the primary structure (sometimes falsely called primary sequence) of an unbranched biopolymer.
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Stanley Michael Gartler
Stanley Michael Gartler (born June 9, 1923) is a cell and molecular biologist and human geneticist.
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Strain (biology)
In biology, a strain is a low-level taxonomic rank used at the intraspecific level (within a species).
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Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the court of last resort in the courts of the State of California.
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Telomerase
Telomerase, also called terminal transferase, is a ribonucleoprotein that adds a species-dependent telomere repeat sequence to the 3' end of telomeres.
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Telomere
A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotide sequences at each end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) is a non-fiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (film)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.
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The Scientist (magazine)
The Scientist is a professional magazine intended for life scientists.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Theodore Puck
Theodore Puck (September 24, 1916 – November 6, 2005) was an American geneticist born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Tubulin
Tubulin in molecular biology can refer either to the tubulin protein superfamily of globular proteins, or one of the member proteins of that superfamily.
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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States.
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Walter Nelson-Rees
Walter Nelson-Rees (11 January 1929 – 23 January 2009) was a cell culture worker and cytogeneticist who helped expose the problem of cross-contamination of cell lines.
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War on Cancer
The War on Cancer refers to the effort to find a cure for cancer by increased research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and the development of more effective cancer treatments, such as targeted drug therapies.
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WI-38
WI-38 is a diploid human cell strain composed of fibroblasts derived from lung tissue of a 3-months gestation female fetus.
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Xenotransplantation
Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign"), is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
