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.

BALTIMORE -- The family of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement Monday in their lawsuit against a biotech company over the use of the Baltimore woman's immortal cells, known as "HeLa cells." The ...

Attorneys representing the family of Henrietta Lacks on Tuesday announced a settlement of their lawsuit against Thermo Fisher over the use of cells in scientific research.. The lawsuit demanded ...

Henrietta Lacks' family reaches settlement over use of her 'stolen' cells Her genetic material, taken without her knowledge in 1951, has helped facilitate numerous scientific breakthroughs ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with science journalist and author Rebecca Skloot about Henrietta Lacks, whose family just settled with a biotech company that used her cancer cells without consent.

Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia. Her birth name was Loretta Pleasant, but she eventually took the last name of her mother, Eliza Lacks.

In February 2010, Johns Hopkins addressed ethical concerns about the acquisition of the initial HeLa cells in a statement: “It’s important to note that at the time the cells were taken from ...

On Aug. 1, 2023, over 70 years after doctors took Lacks’ cells without her consent or knowledge, her family reached a settlement with biotech company Thermo Fisher.

The living relatives of Henrietta Lacks have reached a settlement with the biotechnology company that took her cervical cells without her knowledge over 70 years ago. Lacks’ descendants sued ...

Henrietta Lacks's family sued, saying scientific breakthroughs and profits that Thermo Fisher Scientific made came from cells extracted without Lacks’s consent.

Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five, was dying of cervical cancer in 1951, when doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore took a sample of her cells without her knowledge or consent.