Henrietta Lacks' cells were essential in developing the polio vaccine and were used in scientific landmarks such as cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. Courtesy of the Lacks family ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks sued two pharmaceutical giants for unjust enrichment on Monday, arguing they profited from Lacks’ genetic material without consent. The suit against Novartis ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company that sold products derived from the Baltimore County ...

Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without permission and used since the 1950s in life-saving research, will now have a say in how that genomic information will be studied. Any ...

The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks has settled a lawsuit over the use of her endlessly reproducing cells, which changed modern medicine and saved millions of lives. Lacks’ surviving family members ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - On this day, 105 years ago in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke. She later moved to Halifax County. After a diagnosis of cervical cancer in 1951, her cells were taken by ...

These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...