I know a few people that would argue that HeLa cells night as well be their own separate species after dealing with cell line contamination and all by HeLa cell

I know a few people that would argue that HeLa cells night as well be their own separate species after dealing with cell line contamination and all by HeLa cells, it's more in a joking sense afaik but there might be something to treating some of these cancer cell lineages as new species