Henrietta Lacks died from cervical cancer in 1951 after being part of a clinical trial she wasn't aware of. "HeLa cells" have ...

Henrietta Lacks was shortened to HeLa — the world ... HeLa cells can be found contaminating unrelated samples. Henrietta’s cancer cells divide faster and were more hardy than any other ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and Culture have jointly acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks. She was being treated for cervical ...

Just days after settling with Thermo Fisher for an undisclosed sum, the family of Henrietta ... the use of HeLa cells, which were derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Lacks more than ...

The latest lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, filed in a federal court ... unaware that a sample of her cancer cells had been taken for use in research - becoming the first cells ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a provocative first ... furthering scientific inquiry in cell and molecular biology and cancer therapy enormously in the nearly 60 years since they were ...

Cell type: HeLa cells, the cervical tumor cells of Henrietta Lacks Genome size: ~3.2 billion base pairs HeLa ... and the discovery that the human papilloma virus can cause cervical cancer. They were ...

4. The immortal cell line of Henrietta Lacks In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was dealt a devastating blow when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Though she received attention at the Johns Hopkins ...