He took a tissue sample ... Deborah Lacks holding an image of HeLa cells The story of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cell line went largely untold for decades. Even her name was spread as ...

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 ...

This research field was to change forever when, in 1951, the cells taken from a cancer biopsy survived in culture. Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer from Virginia ...

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.

Fanta is one of the world's most popular soft drinks, but its origins are tied to the resource constraints and political ...

Carter is the grandson of Henrietta Lacks. She is a Black woman whose cells changed the medical world. Lacks died from cervical cancer in 1951 after being part of a clinical trial she wasn't aware of.

BALTIMORE, MD - MARCH 28: Veronica Spencer, great granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells are some of the most important in medical research, poses at her home with a portrait of her ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a provocative first book ... telling them that the injections contained cancer cells. This took place before the era of informed consent but well after ...

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research, settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and Culture have jointly acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks. She was being treated for cervical ...

Henrietta Lacks. It’s a name most of us don’t recognize or see in history books. Born in Roanoke, she died at 31 from cervical cancer but her cells were essential in finding a polio vaccine ...

Viatris is accused of using the cells in the development of Denavir (penciclovir), another herpes therapy, and antidepressant mirtazapine. "Novartis has acknowledged the story of Henrietta Lacks ...