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incoherency

is the kariotype stable or not? 2 opposing citations: 1) "Researchers have also noted how stable these aberrant karyotypes can be" 2) "the notorious instability of HeLa's karyotype" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.216.121.9 (talk) 17:32, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Error in lead paragraph?

The lead says the cells "were taken without her knowledge or consent by researcher George Gey...", which I don't think is accurate. I believe that the cells were taken from her tumor by the surgical team that operated on her, not Dr. Gey, and the samples afterwards given to Dr. Gey, who was the researcher doing work at Johns Hopkins. The wording seems to imply the he himself took the samples from her, possibly even surreptitiously.

Later in the Origin section, it says the "cells were propagated by" Dr. Gey, which is more correct, but still leaves the actual origin rather vague.

I think the lead paragraph should be corrected to be more clear about this. Or if that would make the lead too long, put more detailed info in the Origin section. T bonham (talk) 04:08, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've verified it on ^[1] and shall correct it. Thanks, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 11:36, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Henrietta Lacks's cells were priceless, but her family can't afford a hospital". World news. Retrieved 18 July 2017. {{cite web}}: Text "The Guardian" ignored (help)

What does this sentence even mean?

"it is estimated that HeLa cells, at one point, contaminated millions of dollars worth of biological research."

Can we rewrite this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.158.66.191 (talk) 00:51, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Recent changes to date formats

A recent series of edits changed the long-standing date format of this article from Month Day(date), Year to Day(date) Month, Year, so from February 14, 2018 to 14 February, 2018. This would seem to be against the WP:MOSNUM Manual of Style guideline of keeping previously-existing/long-standing date formats (plus the fact that Mrs. Lacks was American and the most common US format is Month Day(date), Year). Thoughts, reactions, here please. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 06:29, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

The article says that HeLa is pronounced /ˈheɪlɑː/, but I've always only heard it as /ˈhiːlɑː/. Looking through the edits, it seems like it used to be /ˈhiːlɑː/ but was changed at some point without a source. Does anyone have a source for this or can anyone confirm one of these pronunciations? Kalexchu (talk) 03:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have never heard it pronounced as anything other than HEEluh (or something close to that). I think the IP was apparently trying to be oh-so-funny & clever, saying that the pronunciation was "HEYLah" - like the "Hey ya" song by Andre3000. I've changed it back to the correct pronunciation, thanks for catching the problem. Shearonink (talk) 03:27, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Changes

Hi there, I'm a student editor at JHU editing this article for a final project. My partner and I made some changes to the article shown on Wikipedia. To save time, I'll detail some of the things we've changed so far: shortened the intro, added a controversy section to reflect the bioethical issue produced by HeLa, reorganized the use in research section by field. I also plan to reorganize the photos in the article to be more spread out (specifically the ones at the bottom of the article) to get a better image distribution. Thanks for your time! Sebawmm24 (talk) 01:50, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Henrietta Lacks's cells were priceless, but her family can't afford a hospital". World news. Retrieved 18 July 2017. {{cite web}}: Text "The Guardian" ignored (help)

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