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 ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against two large pharmaceutical companies, alleging the firms have profited from exploiting the Baltimore County woman’s cell line.

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta ... Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. During attempts to cure her shortly before she died, Lacks’ abnormally ...

Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer ... Dr Howard Jones at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore obtained a small piece of tissue sample from her to diagnose and treat her ...

The latest lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, filed in a federal court ... it came to court was dismissed by a judge in Baltimore in May, as well as Thermo Fisher Scientific ...

to East Baltimore where Henrietta’s children and grandchildren struggle with their legacy, to science labs today where they contribute to continuous breakthroughs in medical and scientific research.

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman from Baltimore, died of cancer. However, before her death a small sample of her cells were taken from her without her knowledge, and these cells did ...

Bristol artist Helen Wilson-Roe created the life-sized bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks ... tumour in Louisiana-born Ms Lacks' body before she died aged 31 in Baltimore, USA.

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 ...