ENCBS113ENC / cell line
Summary
- Status
- released
- Term name
- HeLa-S3
- Term ID
- EFO:0002791
- Summary
- Homo sapiens HeLa-S3 cell line
- Description
- Cervical adenocarcinoma
Attribution
ENCODE2 project
- Lab
- Richard Myers, HAIB
- Award PI
- Richard Myers, HAIB
- Submitted by
- Richard Myers
- Source
- Unknown Source
- Project
- ENCODE
- External resources
- Submitter comment
- Henrietta Lacks, and the HeLa cell line that was established from her tumor cells in 1951, have made significant contributions to scientific progress and advances in human health. We are grateful to Henrietta Lacks, now deceased, and to her surviving family members for their contributions to biomedical research.
Donor information
- Status
- released
- Accession
- ENCDO000AAB
- Aliases
- encode:donor of HeLa-S3, encode:donor of HeLa
- Species
- Homo sapiens
- Life stage
- adult
- Age
- 31 years
- Sex
- female
- Health status
- cervical adenocarcinoma
- Ethnicity
- African American
- External resources