WRAL

The Smithsonian unveils a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the black farmer whose cells led to medical miracles

This week, the Smithsonian unveiled a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the black tobacco farmer who ended up changing the world. Her cells have allowed for advances in cancer treatment, AIDS research, ...
The Boston Globe

Family of Henrietta Lacks and Waltham-based Thermo Fisher settle lawsuit over use of HeLa cells

It accused the company of profiting from her cloned cells, which have been widely used in research for more than 70 years. Terms of the agreement are not being made public. Thermo Fisher Scientific ...
Afro

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks’ estate over use of her ‘stolen’ cells to advance medicine

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...
Yahoo

Who was Henrietta Lacks? The life of the woman whose 'immortal' cells changed modern medicine forever.

Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Lacks began feeling 'knots' in her stomach in 1950, and was diagnosed with cervical cancer by Johns ...
WRAL

Henrietta Lacks, Whose Cells Led to a Medical Revolution

She never traveled farther than Baltimore from her family home in southern Virginia, but her cells have traveled around the Earth and far above it, too. She was buried in an unmarked grave, but the ...
WBUR

Waltham biotech company settles with family of Henrietta Lacks over 'immortal' cells harvested without consent

More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a ...
The Denver Post

Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LEA SKENE and SARAH BRUMFIELD (Associated Press) BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ ...
The Hill

Henrietta Lacks family settles suit over use of cells taken without consent

The descendants of Henrietta Lacks said Tuesday they had agreed to a settlement with biotechnology company Thermo Fisher over the use of cells taken from their ancestor without her permission for ...
The Baltimore Sun

Family of Henrietta Lacks celebrates settlement of HeLa cell lawsuit against biotech giant

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X The family of Henrietta Lacks agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a ...
WWLTV

Drugmaker settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...
Newsday

Henrietta Lacks' family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent

BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with ...