During her brief lifetime, Henrietta Lacks inadvertently changed the face of medicine. Now, the woman whose harvested cells continue to inform and advance medical research will also change the face of ...

Next year will mark 75 years since the death of Henrietta Lacks, whose "immortal" HeLa cells have proved nearly indispensable to modern medicine. Their use was crucial for the development of vaccines ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cells were taken without her consent in 1951 and led to various medical advancements, has reached a settlement with pharmaceutical company Novartis for ...

Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, together with descendants of Henrietta Lacks, broke ground Monday on the future site of the building named in honor of Mrs. Lacks, the Baltimore ...