She never traveled farther than Baltimore from her family home in southern Virginia, but her cells have traveled around the Earth and far above it, too. She was buried in an unmarked grave, but the ...

WALTHAM - Henrietta Lacks would have been 103 on Tuesday. Her gift is justice. Seventy years ago, Lacks went to the hospital for cancer treatment. Her cells were used for research purposes without ...

BALTIMORE -- The family of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement Monday in their lawsuit against a biotech company over the use of her immortal cells, known as "HeLa cells." The lawsuit, filed in 2021, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement ...

BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with ...

Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Lacks began feeling 'knots' in her stomach in 1950, and was diagnosed with cervical cancer by Johns ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have uncovered a type of immortal cell in laboratory settings, offering unprecedented potential for medical research and treatment. These cells, with their ...

Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells have been central to decades of important scientific breakthroughs, settled with a biotechnology company they claimed in a lawsuit profited ...