Charlie Bell wrote:
> 
> There is an argument that as they are independent and an immortal  
> cell line, that they could be considered an example of a speciation  
> event, but all that means is that we've chosen to call them 
> something  for convenience and to distinguish them from other clumps 
> of human  cells. They are indeed human cells. Very interesting ones, 
> but  indisputably human.
> 
I would not call HeLa cells human cells, but _mutant_ human cells.
Human cells don't behave like HeLa cells.

Alberto Monteiro

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