The first immortal human cells grown in culture were taken from an African American woman without her consent. Those cells have been crucial to life-saving medical developments, such as the polio ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. ABC7 was joined by special guests head of an event Saturday at Imani Village promoting cancer prevention and more representation for Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a biopsy in 1950, Henrietta Lacks' tissue was removed and used in medical research without her knowledge or consent. She ...

Henrietta Lacks' cells have been used in cancer research and to develop the polio vaccine. In 1951, doctors took some of Henrietta Lacks' cells before she died of cancer. Those cells kept living, ...

Alfred Lacks-Carter Jr., whose late grandmother, Henrietta Lacks’, cancer cell line led to treatments for COVID-19, AIDS, polio, cancer and other illnesses, wants to educate more people on the legacy ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio— On Aug 1, the descendants of Henrietta Lacks made medical history when they settled their lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, one of the medical research companies they claim ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — The Henrietta Lacks Traveling Museum is making a stop in its creator’s hometown. Curated by Jermaine Jackson, a great nephew of Lacks, the museum tells the history of a woman who’s ...