The closest I've been able to get to answering this question is an article from Microsoft titled Azure SQL Database Benchmark Overview. This writers performed a benchmark scenario on each one of the Azure SQL tiers and measured the results in terms of Transaction per hour/minute/second.
The stable growth of HeLa enabled a researcher at the University of Minnesota hospital to successfully grow polio virus, enabling the development of a vaccine, and by 1954, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio using these cells.
One promising application of gene therapy is in treating type I diabetes. Researchers in the United States used an adenovirus as a vector to deliver the gene for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) to pancreatic islet cells removed from rats.