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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In February 2026, over 70 years after doctors took Lacks’ cells without her consent or ...

Leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the family of Henrietta Lacks — whose cells, known as HeLa cells, were stolen and harvested without her consent in the ...

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. During a biopsy in 1950, Henrietta Lacks' tissue was removed and used in medical research without her knowledge or consent. She ...

Alfred Lacks-Carter Jr., whose late grandmother, Henrietta Lacks’, cancer cell line led to treatments for COVID-19, AIDS, polio, cancer and other illnesses, wants to educate more people on the legacy ...