Just learned about HeLa cells online today. I've seen various figures on how many cells have been produced over time, and regardless of what that number really is, I'm just curious where all the matter for these cells come from. It seems crazy enough that cells could reproduce indefinitely, let alone where all the material comes from. I mean, if they are just simply dividing, wouldn't they get too small to be functional? Note that I only have rudimentary knowledge on biology.
Just learned about HeLa cells online today. I've seen various figures on how many cells have been produced over time...
Cooper Perez
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Lucas Wood
Matter comes from the soil and the atmosphere, energy comes from the sun or geothermal vents
Justin Nelson
wtf. they take nutrients from their surroundings.
Henry Ramirez
Other cells
Zachary Moore
The hell are those tendrils?
Henry Allen
well I mean if the cells are just in a dish on their own.
I know researchers introduce other cells for testing in isolated samples, but do they have to constantly introduce biological matter in every sample to keep them going?
Carter Anderson
Yes. They culture the cells on media which contain an abundance of necessary "food."
Joseph Phillips
The jelly shit that the dish is half full of is bacteria food
Owen Hernandez
ah. okay. Thank you! I mean, that makes perfect sense It just wasn't clear whenever a video/article talked about them. They just said, "Hey these reproduce indefinitely," and then go on to talk about the ethical issues surrounding the cells. I just wanted to make sure this wasn't something impossible becoming possible...
Ian Williams
Reproduce indefinitely just means that you can keep the population alive for as long as you supply an environment they can live in and food
David Parker
humans have so far reproduced indefinitely
Jaxon Morgan
Ah I see.
And good point.
Tyler Murphy
Would be cool to grow a fleshlight with them.
Jaxson Flores
>Science & Math
David Flores
filopodia
Lucas White
>growing a sex toy from cervical cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks
William Russell
Would it be possible to clone a biological copy of Helen from the HeLa DNA? Or all thay we would get is nothing but more tumor cells?
Lincoln Thomas
Closest these virgins will ever get to female reproductive organs.
Kevin Lopez
the genomes of cancer cells are fucked up beyond belief, user
Blake Rivera
No
Whoever she was is long gone.
The longer you culture a cell line the more mutated it becomes.
Used to work in a cancer research lab attached to a cancer treatment facility. For a lot of studies we did we would use patient tumors removed in surgery, collect malignant cells and grow them in tissue culture then use them for experiments. Still fucking creepy we could do that.
Luke Nguyen
Sounds like that would be some Akira type monster. Let's do it
Jacob Ortiz
Mutations from seven different dudes prostate cancers
Nathaniel Campbell
you store them in media that contains nutrients for a cell
Jason Gonzalez
A random poor black lady with cervical cancer
Joseph Gonzalez
the cells are oncogenic
to get a full multicellular organism you have to start with a single cell
that single cell is already oncogenic, it will already start dividing rapidly, you won't even get close to the embryonic stage
Jacob Turner
You're a fucking retard
Dominic Lee
Hela cells are evolving and even invade other cell lines and take over there cultures.
I think we should genetically engineer it to photosynthesize and use more amino acids so it can evolve and take over the world.
Ian Jackson
The reproduce indefinitely, and then there's hella cells.
Isaac Evans
Ok ,I fucked that one up.
They reproduce indefinitely, and then there's HeLa cells.
Ryder Sullivan
>It seems crazy enough that cells could reproduce indefinitely, let alone where all the material comes from.
The average Veeky Forums poster right here gentlemen.