Author name: Josefina Kelly

Does Ethiopia Have Lion?

Ethiopian lions, known for their unusually black manes, were feared extinct until a population of around 50 were rediscovered in 2016. Because few scientists have studied these big cats, it’s unclear if they—and another group of a hundred or so lions across the border in Sudan—represent a separate subspecies. Which African country has lion? Most …

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What Does Hela Stand For?

Henrietta Lacks. The first was the HeLa cell line, named after Henrietta Lacks, a cervical cancer patient from whom the cells were obtained in 1951, which enabled the development of the Salk inactivated vaccine against poliovirus. From: Encyclopedia of Virology (Fourth Edition), 2021. What does the term HeLa mean? goddess of the dead and queen …

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