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.

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.

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, often called the ‘Mother of Modern Medicine,’ has left a legacy that transcends generations and continues to ...