If honey is not organic that means that bees were using the flowers with pesticides. Organic beekeeping is the beekeeping practiced in clean environment, without intensive agriculture, use of synthetic feed and chemicals harmful for the bees.
Thereâs no way of knowing exactly how many of Henriettaâs cells are alive today. One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, theyâd weigh more than 50 million metric tonsâan inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.
The research worldâs most famous human cell has had its genome decoded, and itâs a mess. German researchers this week report the genome sequence of the HeLa cell line, which originates from a deadly cervical tumor taken from a patient named Henrietta Lacks. Established after Lacks died in 1951, HeLa cells were the first human cells to grow well in the laboratory. The cells have contributed to more than 60,000 research papers, the development of a polio vaccine in the 1950s and, most recently, an international effort to characterize the genome, known as ENCODE.