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. About Wayne Szalinski - A wacky, absent-minded inventor is back again but only this time he's shrunk. it.
(Illustration by Steven Gardner)
It is possible that the HeLa cells would have been obtained by scraping a living cell off the bottom of the petri dish. As de Vries points out, they also infected the cells with a retrovirus that allowed for the uncontrolled production of a fusion protein that resembled the HeLa protein (in form and function). But if HeLa was so easy to obtain, why was there so much press coverage of the paper? The answer lies in the frenzy that surrounds the Nobel Prize. It is an enormous financial reward, and those that are awarded it are seen as having discovered something ‘transformational’. Science is undoubtedly transformed when an important new discovery is made, but there are also certain ideas that have been out there for decades, and the brilliance of de Vries and Baltimore came in showing that they can be made in vitro.
De Vries’s image of the cell-factory was drawn from the writings of the German biologist Paul Erlich, who died in 1920. Erlich wrote about the Ehrlich-Botts experiment in 1897 and there were papers published in English and German at the time. Furthermore, both the British and the German Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1900 (British for Thomson and the German for Hertz). We are familiar with Erlich’s ideas from a later era, the heyday of the discovery of DNA. But it was the British and German researchers who were ahead of their time.
If the cells were not HeLa, the researchers took careful steps to hide their identity. If the cells were unknown, but looked to be of HeLa type, they carefully called them HeLa. The cells were sent to researchers around the world, who were all delighted to have an immortal cell line. But even after the cells were established, the identity of the cells was not revealed. After the first paper was published in 1953, Baltimore decided to keep the cells in the dark. As de Vries points out, he wrote: ‘The cells we have obtained cannot be identified. No one has any idea where they come from. This is called “confidentiality”.’ Baltimore was the winner be359ba680
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