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

In 2010, Rebecca Skloot published The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling look at Henrietta Lacks’ story, her impact on medical science, and important bioethical issues. That book became ...

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 ...

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

Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer from Virginia, was born in August 1920 and was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer at the age of 31. Dr Howard Jones at ...

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 latest lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, filed in a federal court ... without her or her family's consent. Neither company is prepared to comment on ongoing litigation.

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 ...