One Of The Many Uses of the HeLa Cell

As is known to many scientists and people worldwide, the HeLa cells which originated from Henrietta Lacks, has helped make many medical and scientific breakthroughs and advancements. One of the fields that received a lot of help from HeLa cells was virology.
Virology is the biological study of viruses. Basically, the HeLa cells were used to study the effects of viruses on regular cells. This may confuse people because these cells are not regular cells, they are malignant cancer cells so how could they really be used to test how normal cells would react to viruses.

Well, to the surprise of many, even though HeLa cells reproduce uncontrollably compared to other cells, they tend to share many characteristics with regular cells. For one, HeLa cells communicate with their fellow cells and created proteins just like regular cells. They also regulate their genes, divide, generate energy, and most importantly they get infected just like regular cells.
They were even proven to be more useful for  the study of viruses because thy divide rapidly so the infection or virus would grow quicklier. This would yield quicker results. Since the results can come faster, there could be more trials which would give the scientists better, more accurate results.