Just over a week after Henrietta Lacks’ descendants settled a lawsuit against a biotech company they accused of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations, the family’s attorneys have filed ...

Henrietta Lacks’ family recently settled their lawsuit with the biotechnology company that kept and used her cancer cells without her consent. “Members of the family of Henrietta Lacks and Thermo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henrietta Lacks' story is one of many Black women who were experimented on by medical institutions. During that time period, it ...

Henrietta Lacks, a Black Maryland patient who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951, had her cells collected during a biopsy without her consent. The descendants of Henrietta is now suing ...

Update (August 2, 2023): Members of the Lacks family agreed to a settlement in their lawsuit accusing Thermo Fisher Scientific, a biotech firm, of profiting from the HeLa cell line without ...

Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific and the living relatives of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement Monday in the family's lawsuit seeking compensation for the use of a cell line that was ...

This story was originally published by The Baltimore Banner. Henrietta Lacks’ living relatives gathered Tuesday morning in a sunny Baltimore waterfront park to herald the settlement they reached with ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks can proceed in its lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company that allegedly used her “immortal” cells to develop gene therapy products, a federal judge ruled Monday. In a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There's a push to recognize a medical pioneer in Washington on Wednesday. Henrietta Lacks is known around the world for her remarkable contributions to medicine. Now, some ...

The Henrietta Lacks estate filed a lawsuit on the 70th anniversary of her death, alleging Thermo Fisher Scientific of making "a conscious choice to sell and mass produce" her living tissue Glenn ...

Dr. Roland Pattillo and his wife Pat O'Flynn Pattillo paid for Henrietta Lacks' permanent headstone, a smooth, substantial block of pink granite. It sits in the shape of a hardcover book. Henrietta ...