I am sure many company and new research labs are doing this. But the body of research that was built on HeLa cannot be discarded or we would literally regress decades.
And that is what the lawsuit is about. They are suing about the "exploitation" of the cell line without consent so all the drugs and results that involve HeLa cells are held hostage.
> They are suing about the "exploitation" of the cell line without consent
You asked for our opinion. I will instead offer contrasting examples: James Harrison donated blood every week for 60 years, helping save the lives of about 2.4 million babies, thanks to possessing rare antibodies: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blo...
Unlike the "exploitation" of the HeLa cells, that caused not the slightest inconvenience to Henrietta Lacks, he had to visit a transfusion center for each donation.
Barry Marshall deliberately infected himself with a bacteria to prove it caused peptic ulcers, risking his health, which led to their treatment with antibiotics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
Some will selflessly sacrifice their time, and risk their health, for the common good. Others won't give even a handful of cells, at no cost to themselves, without claiming victimhood and demanding compensation.
I heard from a mod of a large sub that old.reddit is not going anywhere - apparently all of the admin tools are built on old.reddit, so shutting it down would not be feasible without a huge engineering effort.
OTOH, I've already stopped posting and commenting and will only resume once they change their stance on moderation tools and third-party access. If old.reddit goes for good, I'll go as well.
I realized they are making it worse and worse to use for mobile, like the browser version barely works anymore on mobile, and sometimes forces you to go to the app :(
They bought it for Notes, Notes was good before IBM purchased it, rel 4 was pretty good. New Releases it got worse and worse. They finally dumped it I think two years ago and sold it to another company.
Silicon Valley is the human equivalent of a hot nickel ball melting through ice, it only does one thing until it inevitably cools and becomes trapped in any icy grave. The nickel ball melts ice, SV generates enormous wealth for a relative few, at the expense of its environs.
So who's side is SV on? Whoever owns it this week.
Historically it's been up and down. It will go away for a while. There's also archive.today and archive.ph . Sometimes it gets firewalled by zealous sysadmins.
Human tissues may be fine tuned to need a specific range of C12orf29 molecule quantities: too many or too few might be big problems. See https://www.proteinatlas.org/search/C12orf29 for the gene expression for various tissues.
