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 ...

During a biopsy in 1950, Henrietta Lacks' tissue was removed and used in medical research without her knowledge or consent. She died of cervical cancer in 1951. (Photo: Getty Images) On Tuesday, ...

While Henrietta Lacks was being treated for cervical cancer, researchers took biopsies without her consent and created the first ‘immortal’ cell line. Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on Oct. 4 ...

The Henrietta Lacks estate filed a lawsuit on the 70th anniversary of her death, alleging Thermo Fisher Scientific of making "a conscious choice to sell and mass produce" her living tissue Glenn ...

The descendants of Henrietta Lacks said Tuesday they had agreed to a settlement with biotechnology company Thermo Fisher over the use of cells taken from their ancestor without her permission for ...

Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific and the living relatives of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement Monday in the family's lawsuit seeking compensation for the use of a cell line that was ...

Just over a week after Henrietta Lacks’ descendants settled a lawsuit against a biotech company they accused of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations, the family’s attorneys have filed ...

BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — Over 880 people attended the 13th Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Oct. 7, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Turner Auditorium. “Our family has been working with ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks can proceed with a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company that uses the Baltimore County woman’s “immortal” cell line to develop medical treatments, a federal judge ...

Relatives of the late Henrietta Lacks— whose cells were taken 70 years ago and used for biomedical research that continues today— have retained high-profile lawyers. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump ...

Shawn Berkins and the Baltimore community honored the driving force behind modern scientific research during a Henrietta Lacks Paint Day. Artist Shawn Berkins and Baltimore residents honor Henrietta ...

The estate of Henrietta Lacks has filed a lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, which sells a commercial line of HeLa tissue, accusing the corporation of profiting from Lacks' "stolen" cells. In ...