In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...

The latest lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, filed in a federal court in Maryland, names Novartis Pharma, Novartis Gene Therapies, and Viatris, which was formerly known as Mylan ...

but never sought or received permission from the estate of Henrietta Lacks to use them. The biotech – which has a pair of gene therapies for glycogen storage disease type 1a (GSD1a) and ...

The Morgan State University figure unveiling will be followed by Lacks' figure being moved to the Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

But our ability to research, treat and prevent many diseases would not the be the same without Henrietta Lacks, an ordinary woman who unknowingly sparked a scientific breakthrough when a sample of ...

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 ...

Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells revolutionized medical research, is honored with a wax figure at Morgan State ...

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 ...

screening of Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) cells through a library targeting 297 genes with potentially shared functions with CDK12. The team validated Cdk12KO organoids for the efficacy of ...