according to scientists, how much would all the hela cells ever cultured weigh (if we could pile them all on a scale at once)
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Excerpt: 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' There’s no way of knowing exactly how many of Henrietta’s cells are alive today. One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.
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Henrietta Lacks: the mother of modern medicine Then, 37 years after Lacks's death, a 16-year-old schoolgirl called Rebecca Skloot was sitting in a biology lesson when her teacher explained how cancer begins, and said the process had been learned from studying cells in culture – HeLa cells. The cells, said the teacher, came from a woman called Henrietta Lacks.
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Excerpt: 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' The first immortal human cells grown in culture, her cells -- known as HeLa cells -- are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons -- as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings.
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- The starting cell number, or inoculation density, affects both the proportion of beads bearing the cells and the total. cell yield. It seems that the growth rate was increased with increased concentration of cell inoculation and the. optimal ratio of cells/bead was between 25-30 cells/bead (Fig. 4). Fig. 4. Effect of starting cell density at inoculation. The effect of pH of the culture medium.
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- The size and weight of Heliconia rhizomes varies depending on the species or variety. Smaller species, such as psittacorum rhizomes, may weigh only 50 to 70g. Rhizomes of large Heliconias like caribaea varieties may weigh 300g to 700g and more. Some typical heliconia rhizomes (click on thumbnail for a larger picture).
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BeerSmithâ¢ Home Brewing Forum Dry yeast is more viable in the package (i.e., it doesn't die on the shelf) than liquid. So, at 20 billion cells per gram, and most packages at 11 grams that is about 200 to 220 billion cells with some limited amount of die-off.The dry yeast MFR already put the glycogen and sterols needed for growth in the yeast, further reducing the need for a starter, assuming you rehydrate.here are about 17 billion cells per gram. Economically, it is much cheaper to add the desired number of yeast cells rather than multiple vials/packs of liquid yeast and starters. the whole point of the starter is to pitch the right number of yeast cells for the batch size and gravity.
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Synopsis: How Much Does a Cell Weigh? They then use tabulated values to relate the index to the mass density of the red blood cells (and some other tricks to find their volumes), arriving at a mass of roughly 27 picograms (1 picogram =10-12 gram) per cell.
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Denarius 1/48 pound. Equals 10 asses giving the denarius its name, which translates as containing ten. . The original copper coinage was weight based, and was related to the Roman pound, the libra, which was about 325 g. The basic copper coin, the as, was to weigh 1 Roman pound.
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HeLa: The immortal cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks HeLa: The immortal cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951 at age 31. But her cells live on to this day, from a tissue sample her doctor took. Ms. Lacks’s cells, it seems, were determined to live forever.
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- 1 This happens to be one trillion cells in one liter of volume. 2  We assume that 1 liter is about 1kg, assuming the density of water. There are therefore 10¹² cells in one kg.  If we assume that the person has a mass of 80kg, then we obtain: 80×10¹² cells, this is 80 trillion cells.
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"Why are HeLa cells ""immortal""?" Normally stem cells produce specialised cells, which do not reproduce, and a limited number of stem cells (under some control). Pretty much HeLA are not even like stem cells, they are like cancer.. they reproduce themselves uncontrollably.
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Cell counting To quantify the number of cells in a culture, the cells can be simply plated on a petri dish with growth medium. If the cells are efficiently distributed on the plate, it can be generally assumed that each cell will give rise to a single colony or Colony Forming Unit (CFU) .
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- Before coins (600 BC) everything was measured by weight or volume. Today 6 shekel coins in Israel will buy you a coffee. In ancient times 6 shekels was a specific weight and the value was dependent upon what was being weighed in the scale! Weight stones were a standard weight system place in one side of the balance.
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- Water Lily, who has been at the zoo for 33 years, weighed in at 2,994 pounds. The combined weight of the animals was 6,279 pounds. The weigh-in was part of a two-week online contest where zoo patrons guessed the combined weight of the hippos.
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- How much does a typical virus weigh? About 10 femtograms, according to scientists who have created tiny weighing scales that can detect the mass of a single virus particle1. That's about one trillionth as much as… a grain of rice, says lead researcher Rashid Bashir of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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- A saturated E. coli culture has about 10 9 cells/ml. Given that each cell is about 10 −12 grams, we get a cell concentration of about 1 mg/ml or about 1 part in a thousand of the mass (or volume).
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- This is dependent on how much each person consumes. There are 16 ounces in a pound. 2.5 pounds = 40 ounces. A head of lettuce typically weighs 12 ounces, which can usually be … consumed by 3 - 4 people. SO, if a person consumes 3 ounces of lettuce in a sitting, and there are 40 ounces to be had...about 13 people can be fed.
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- Subspecies of HeLa cells have evolved in labs and some feel that the cell line is no longer human, but a new microbial life form. These cells are shown in green the cytoplasm is red and structures within the cytoplasm are blue.