HeLa cells get their name from the person they belonged to: Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman and mother of five who in 1951 got diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. While Lacks ...

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells ... an old problem The cells, dubbed HeLa for the first letters ...

The HeLa cells became the first 'immortalised human ... The record-breaking track and field Olympian talks to BBC 100 Women about her advocacy for athletes' rights. Brian Allen speaks to Michelle ...

The family of a Black woman whose biopsied cancer cells have ... Research conducted on Henrietta Lacks’ biopsied (HeLa”) cells has played a key role in the development of both the polio ...

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. Her cells, known as "HeLa cells," have ...

These cells, dubbed HeLa, reproduce indefinitely in the lab and have been used for research that has led to more than 10,000 medical patents. Lacks died in 1951 at the age of 31. “It is fitting that ...

But our ability to research, treat and prevent many diseases would not the be the same without Henrietta Lacks, an ordinary woman who unknowingly ... indefinitely. HeLa cells are unique in many ...

The new complaint filed in a Baltimore court claims that Ultragenyx made "a conscious choice to commercialise the living genetic material of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman, grandmother ...

The HeLa cell line — a name derived from the first ... Today is also an opportunity to recognize those women of color who have made incredible but often unseen contributions to medical science.” ...

Immortal cell lines, such as HeLa cells, are the backbone of many experiments ... In 1951, a 31-year-old African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks went to the segregated clinic at Johns Hopkins ...

This could account for some reproducibility problems in cell line research, according to the authors of a comprehensive analysis of HeLa variants. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...