A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks ... fuelling an industry now worth billions of dollars. The family knew nothing of Lacks’ role until ...

On May 20, a federal judge rejected pharmaceutical company Ultragenyx’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of Henrietta Lacks last year. Research conducted on Henrietta Lacks ...

While it is now much easier to detect ... never fully informed of the work done with Henrietta’s cells, or their own blood. Much of the Lacks’ family anger has been directed at Johns Hopkins ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose ... suggested that other companies working with HeLa cells may now be targeted, according to a Washington Post report.

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 ...

But our ability to research, treat and prevent many diseases would not the be the same without Henrietta Lacks, an ordinary ... animal and human cells, and now we have thousands of cell lines ...

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research ... Her story has been told in a best-selling book — and now an awesome middle school rap video.

The latest lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, filed in a federal court in Maryland, names Novartis Pharma, Novartis Gene Therapies, and Viatris, which was formerly known as Mylan ...

Henrietta Lacks ... to society every single day is important," Coleman said. Family members believe that Lacks will now live ...

Alfred Lacks Carter Jr. and Dr. Tonya S. Roberson from Governors State University joined ABC7 in studio Friday. Carter is the grandson of Henrietta Lacks. She is a Black woman whose cells changed ...