From Wikipedia The HeLa cell line in cellular biology is as common a tool as a wrench is to a mechanic. In her 2009 book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot found that over 60,000 ...

But our ability to research, treat and prevent many diseases would not the be the same without Henrietta Lacks, an ordinary woman who unknowingly sparked a scientific breakthrough when a sample of ...

Henrietta Lacks' family have reached a settlement after her cells were taken without her consent The family of a black woman whose cervical cells were harvested in 1951 without her knowledge and ...

Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave in Virginia in 1951 A black American woman - whose cells were taken without consent 70 years ago and have helped save millions of ...