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An image of a divided cell under an electronic micrograph. Each half is green and roundish with many hair-like protrusions extending off of them.

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An image of a just-divided HeLa cell as seen under a scanning electron micrograph.HeLa is one of the most commonly used human cell lines in research. The cell line was derived from cancer cells from an African-American woman, Henrietta Lacks, in 1951, without her consent and with no compensation. (Image by the National Institutes of Health. License: CC BY-NC.)