Greg,
Most likely HeLa cell line. Commonly used to culture viruses.
Derived from a cervical carcinoma from a patient named Henrietta Lacks hence
"HeLa". Used to use these when I worked in a Biochemistry lab in my pre-OM
days.
Charlie
...The current vaccine is grown on a human diploid cell line in culture (the
culture of substrate cells has twice the normal number of human chromosomes,
harvested from a lady's tumor many years ago, forgot what the type was)...
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