The family of Henrietta Lacks reached a confidential settlement on Monday with a biotech firm who they accused of unjustly profiting from the Baltimore woman’s cells for more than 70 years. The 2021 ...
During a biopsy in 1950, Henrietta Lacks' tissue was removed and used in medical research without her knowledge or consent. She died of cervical cancer in 1951. (Photo: Getty Images) On Tuesday, ...
"Now, Henrietta Lacks' grandson, Ron Lacks, says Ultragenyx unjustly reaps some of the benefits of the wrongs against his grandmother," District Judge Deborah L. Boardman said. "Ultragenyx says it has ...
and her contributions to the fight against polio. Just days later, submissions closed for the Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative’s contest to design a memorial in her native Halifax County, Virginia.
BALTIMORE - The family of Henrietta Lacks is filing a lawsuit against a California-based biotech company for profiting from using the immortal "HeLa Cells" without consent. The family is being ...
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells have been central to decades of important scientific breakthroughs, settled with a biotechnology company they claimed in a lawsuit profited ...
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