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Technically, all life does. According to Wikipedia, the cells have a tendency to contaminate pretty much any suitable environment around and proliferate easily
by fiblye 7y ago
Technically, all life does.
According to Wikipedia, the cells have a tendency to contaminate pretty much any suitable environment around and proliferate easily. Seems almost more like a fungal or bacterial growth than what we’d typically consider cancer.
- lawlessone 7y agoDoes it still contain all the information that makes Henrietta Henrietta? like face structure, hair colour etc?
- Santosh83 7y agoProbably, but may have significantly mutated all over the place, corrupting that information. Additionally there are more stable chromosomes than in a normal human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Chromosome_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Chromosome_number