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.
The Discovery of the lac Operon. In 1961, Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod proposed the operon model of gene regulation in bacteria. The model was based on their study of the genes in E. coli that code for enzymes that affect the breakdown of lactose. Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod. Photo courtesy of Archive Photo. Because of the pioneering work of Jacob and Monod, the lac operon is typically used to illustrate gene regulation in bacteria.