| Abstract |
Long-time science reporter Michael Gold describes in graphic detail how
the errant HeLa cells spread, contaminating and overwhelming other cell
cultures, sabotaging research projects, and eluding detection until they
had managed to infiltrate scientific laboratories worldwide. He tracks the
efforts of geneticist Walter Nelson-Rees to alert a sceptical scientific
community to the rampant HeLa contamination. And he reconstructs
Nelson-Rees's crusade to expose the embarrassing mistakes and bogus
conclusions of researchers who unknowingly abetted HeLa's spread.
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