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 ...

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.” ...

But we failed to anticipate the views of the family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose tumour sample was used to create HeLa cells in the 1950s without her knowledge. What Gives You Hope ...

Mushrooms found in the forests of Bankura and Birbhum in West Bengal could become a game-changer in cancer treatment.

Nantwich Players to stage exclusive "Members’ Night" featuring world premiere of English version of HeLa - new play by author ...

Introduction: Cervical cancer is common in women. The present standardized therapies including ... Methods: Cervical cancer cell lines (C-33A and HeLa) were treated with propofol alone (1, 2, 5, 10, ...

A Black woman with highly unique cancer cells, Henrietta had those very cells extracted in 1951. Only one problem: she never gave consent. But here’s the good news. Her ‘HeLa’ cells have become a ...