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Hela Cells are the first human cell line maintained in a laboratory and were derived from an ovarian tumor biopsy from Henrietta Lacks. They were taken with out permission and were delivered to a colleague of her doctor at Johns Hopkins who was attempting to generate a human cell line, he was successful in maintaining the cell line.