I mean the very existance of the HeLa cellline is kinda creepy but the fact this was done without consent is uh... "I did not agree to volunteer for part of me to be subjected to eternal Experimentation"
Is a horror movie plot.

Cost disease is not an economic inevitability; it's a governance design choice. We built an economy optimized for: legal insulation, credentialed mediation, moral theater, & political patronage. Every "ethics board", "ESG framework", & "compliance audit" is another metastasis of the same cellline.

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See our Linkedin post on how the #Cellosaurus now cross-reference to FPBase to indicate the fluorescent protein(s) integrated in a #cellline: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cellosaurus-knowledge-resource_fpbase-the-fluorescent-protein-database-activity-7252433521607077888-GOkD

The Great #CellLine shitshow 🧪

Release 48 of #Cellosaurus contains an entry https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_D4A4 for the 1st sponge #cellline which was recently established from Geodia barretti (see image from Wikipedia) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-32394-x

A last post before Xmas about our #cellline symposium on Jan 11 in Lausanne: https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century As we are not fully booked we offer a Xmas present: enter the discount code CHRISTMAS and benefit from a 20% reduction on the registration fee

We are extending the registration deadline for our symposium "Cell lines in the 21st century" (Jan, 11 2024 in Lausanne): https://my.weezevent.com/cell-lines-in-the-21st-century So don't hesitate to register and please retweet! #cellline #conference

KS-EMPD-1 (will be CVCL_C4LP), the first extramammary Paget’s disease
#cellline. See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37432591/

Found a nice "fake" twitter account for Mary Kubicek @marykubicekNHS, the lab assistant of George Otto Gey. It has been created by high school students studying the story of the HeLa #cellline

Information on the anatomical site where a #cellline has been sampled has been completely enhanced & is now linked to the UBERON (@uberanat) ontology. Cell type information has been also standardized & linked to the CL ontology. Currently we make use of 803 UBERON & 241 CL terms

See on our Mastodon feed a post (too long for Twitter) on why the 1972 paper describing snake #cellline OpC-79 ( is interesting: https://fediscience.org/@cellosaurus/110537285737708063

A very significant milestone for the #Cellosaurus: there are now 10,000 papers that have cited one or more Cellosaurus #cellline Research Resource Identifiers (#RRID)

A new dog mammary gland carcinoma #cellline CMT-1: https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-023-03573-9 but there is already a CMT-1 cell line from dog and from same cancer. Another example how reviewers and publishers (here @BMC) fail to do their homework

#BehindCellLines #13: BRO #cellline https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_7036 seems to have been established by Arnold Lockshin a US researcher who defected with his wife in 1986 to the USSR. More on this fascinating story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Lockshin <a href="https://apnews.com/article/340efaa24201571ec560266341815f5f" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://apnews.com/article/340e...

Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her where Robert E. Lee sculpture once stood https://abcn.ws/3G776OF (#HeLa #cellline

Starting with rel.44 information regarding the susceptibility of a #cellline to viral infection, the presence of integrated viruses or any other virology-related info are now stored in a new "Virology" comment. Example: https://www.cellosaurus.org/CVCL_B6Y7 (Image:

F1G-red: new Vero derived #cellline (will be CVCL_C4MV) Contains a GFP construct that when cleaved by SARS-CoV-2 protease relocates to nucleus: "A reporter cell line for the automated quantification of SARS-CoV-2 infection in living cells" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1...

Today we have reached 140,000 #cellline entries in the #Cellosaurus. When the database was started 10 years ago in February 2012 (with 6,800 entries) we never thought that the universe of cell lines was so big!

DSMZ @Leibniz_DSMZ_en has recently transitioned from using the 8 STR loci to 17 loci for human #cellline authentication. This means that for the next release of the #Cellosaurus we will have updated STR profiles for ~700 human cell lines

We have ~75000 #cellline entries with 1 or more reference to a publication. 51800 with 1 ref, 11800 with 2, 4500:3, 2300:4, etc. The distribution has a very long tail: there are 35 entries with &gt;50 ref. The current max is 110 ref. Who can guess what cell line this is?

In release 41 we now have over 400,000 cross-references to 99 different resources in the #Cellosaurus. To that you need to add 435,000 links to genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases &amp; species. So ~6 links to external sites per #cellline entry

I already tweeted about weird statements in some #cellline patents, but the one below is a gem: they report the STR profile of a mouse cell line using human markers! (and it does not look as this is a contaminated cell line or if it is, the STR profile is not in the #Cellosaurus)