The estate of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court on Thursday accusing biopharmaceutical company Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical of unlawfully profiting from cells that were taken ...

The tissue sample that became the HeLa cell line was cut from Lacks' cervix at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore without her knowledge during surgery to treat her cervical cancer. Lacks died of ...

Lawyers representing Henrietta Lacks’ family announced a settlement Tuesday with biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific decades after doctors took cervical cells from Lacks without her ...

The HeLa cell line was used to test the first polio vaccine, develop a treatment for sickle cell anemia and create the first vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV. expand.

HeLa cells are not the only immortal cell line from human cells, but they were the first. Today new immortal cell lines can either be discovered by chance, as Lacks’s were, or produced through ...

Henrietta Lacks’ family settles with Thermo Fisher Scientific over HeLa cell line. By Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk. August 01, 2023 at 11:39 am EDT. Expand.

Ms. Lacks’s family was not told about the world-changing discovery and did not find out about the cell line until 1973, according to “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” a book by Rebecca ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company that sold products derived from the Baltimore County … ...

Henrietta Lacks’ family settles with Thermo Fisher Scientific over HeLa cell line. By Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk. August 01, 2023 at 11:39 am EDT. Expand.

Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have fueled biomedical research for decades, lawyers for the estate ...

Lawyers representing Henrietta Lacks’ family announced a settlement Tuesday with biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific decades after doctors took cervical cells from Lacks without her ...

Lawyers representing Henrietta Lacks’ family announced a settlement Tuesday with biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific decades after doctors took cervical cells from Lacks without her ...