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 ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Forever changing the medical industry — a black woman from Roanoke known as “the Mother of Modern Medicine” played a pivotal role in American history. But it’s a name many don’t ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken from her without her consent in the 1950s and have led to scores of medical breakthroughs, is suing a pharmaceutical company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...