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Reported an in-vitro comparison of cervical tissues and described one epidermoid-carcinoma strain maintained in continuous roller-tube culture for almost a year.
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The record is the exact 1952 Cancer Research proceedings paper. Henrietta Lacks’s tissue contribution, the absence of her knowledge or consent, later HeLa distribution, cell-line applications and subsequent discoveries remain separate.
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- Cellosaurus publication record for Gey, Coffman and Kubicek
- Cancer Research volume 12 issue 4
- NIH–Lacks Family Agreement and HeLa history
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People and systems
George Otto Gey; Ward D. Coffman; Mary Toye Kubicek
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Gey, Coffman and Kubicek: continuous culture of the HeLa cervical-carcinoma strain
Reported an in-vitro comparison of cervical tissues and described one epidermoid-carcinoma strain maintained in continuous roller-tube culture for almost a year.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1952 Cancer Research proceedings paper. Henrietta Lacks’s tissue contribution, the absence of her knowledge or consent, later HeLa distribution, cell-line applications and subsequent discoveries remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
George Otto Gey; Ward D. Coffman; Mary Toye Kubicek
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.