Then something amazing happened: the cancerous cells grew and continued to grow outside of her body. As Henrietta herself lay dying, the HeLa immortal cell line was born. This cell line has been ...

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 ...

On Saturday, March 15, the public is welcome to Morgan State University’s Behavioral and Social Sciences Center to see the ...

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.

The winning image commemorates someone who was not a scientist but whose cells have made an immense contribution to science and medical research. Henrietta Lacks’ story and the impact of HeLa cells In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roanoke city leaders investment in region’s technology landscape includes scholarships for laboratory studies at Virginia Western Community College.

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.

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story of a poor black tobacco farmer who unknowingly became one of the most important figures in modern medical research.

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 ...

Johns Hopkins told the newspaper that the institution had never patented nor profited from the cells. The Lacks story was documented in a book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which highlighted ...