Loudoun County Public Schools named a primary school after Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who's had a lasting medical impact on the world. The district gathered to honor Lacks in a ...

History reminds us that scientific progress achieved at the expense of the most vulnerable cannot be justified.

Shawn Berkins and the Baltimore community honored the driving force behind modern scientific research during a Henrietta Lacks Paint Day. Artist Shawn Berkins and Baltimore residents honor Henrietta ...

GENEVA (AP) — The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs.

Oct 28, 2024: The relatives of Henrietta Lacks - from left, JaBrea Rodgers, Pam Wilks, Alan Wilks, Veronica Robinson, Jeri Lacks-Whye, Shirley Lacks and David Lacks - pose during the groundbreaking ...

Henrietta Lacks’ descendants joined the groundbreaking at the future site of the Baltimore building. During her brief lifetime, Henrietta Lacks inadvertently changed the face of medicine. Now, the ...

The story of Henrietta Lacks and her “immortal” cells is not quite over. Her eldest son, Lawrence Lacks, has come forth requesting compensation from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and possibly ...