Fanta is one of the world's most popular soft drinks, but its origins are tied to the resource constraints and political ...

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.

Even after all this time, these cells are still widely used in research. But the story of HeLa cells has a twist to it. This cell line that is so prevalent in research was established without the ...

The patients had never given consent to be injected ... and how they have been used. Henrietta Lacks never signed a form saying she allowed her cells to be used for research.

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

saying it's been selling her cervical cells without her knowledge or consent. Oakland middle-schoolers use hip-hop to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks was a poor African-American ...

Henrietta Lacks ... It’s important to note that Lacks’ cells were harvested without her family’s consent. In 2023, 70 years later, her descendants reached a settlement with a biotechnology ...

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 ...