These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a ...

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American ... died of cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

“Everyone else is making funds off of Henrietta’s cells,” Lacks’s grandson, Ron Lacks, told the Sun. “I am sure my grandmother is up in heaven saying, ‘Well, what about my family?’” Johns Hopkins told ...

But in some ways, Henrietta Lacks will. She died in 1951 from cervical cancer at 31 years old. Her cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital and are ...

Attorneys representing the family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were cloned, mass produced, and widely used for research after being removed from a tumor on her cervix without her ...

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 ... She died soon after in a segregated ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital, unaware that a sample of her cancer ...

The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group said in a news release ... In 1951, Lacks was a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital diagnosed with cervical cancer. After her death at 31, doctors took her ...