On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:03:04 +0000 (UTC), 
John Wilkins  wrote:
> John Ings  wrote:
> 
>> In   1991 Leigh Van Valen and V.C. Maiorana published a paper
>> [Evolutionary Theory 10: 71-74]  arguing that the human cancer cell
>> known as the Hela cell, having bred true in labs all over the world
>> for nearly half a century, deserved to be named a new species and
>> proposed the name Helacyton gartleri. 
>> 
>> So I was wondering what sort of reception this argument has received
>> in the years since. Has it been accepted? Rejected? Or does it simply
>> languish as a taxonomic paradox?
>> 
>> And has the Hela cell itself mutated into sub species or varieties?
> 
> It could not have been half a century - Henrietta Lacks, whose cells
> these were, was biopsied in the 60s.


February 1, 1951. 



Larry (who doesn't really remember 1951) Moran
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