ENCBS146YHK / cell line
Summary
- Status
- released
- Term name
- HeLa-S3
- Term ID
- EFO:0002791
- Summary
- Homo sapiens HeLa-S3 cell line
- Description
- Cervical adenocarcinoma
- Product ID
- Unknown
Attribution
ENCODE2 project
- Lab
- Scott Tenenbaum, SUNY-Albany
- Award PI
- Scott Tenenbaum, SUNY-Albany
- Submitted by
- Scott Tenenbaum
- 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