Regarded from the perspective of expanding the knowledge base, there can be little doubt that the discovery and exploitation ...

He took a tissue sample, which confirmed Henrietta ... Sunday dinner was a special meal in the Lacks home. Henrietta always cooked a large meal and made bread pudding with the leftover bread ...

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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a provocative first book by ... tumor and passed on to George and Margaret Gey, pioneers in tissue culture at Johns Hopkins University.

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 ...

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 ...

Just days after settling with Thermo Fisher for an undisclosed sum, the family of Henrietta Lacks has filed ... corporation's knowledge that Mrs Lacks's tissue was taken from her without her ...

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 ...

Loudoun County Public Schools named a primary school after Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who's had a lasting medical impact on the world. The district gathered to honor Lacks in a ...