In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...

In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...

Keith O’Brien looks at FBI records and press coverage to build a comprehensive portrait of the former Cincinnati Reds ...

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 ...

I first learned about Henrietta Lacks and her amazing HeLa cells in a basic biology class when I was 16 years old. My teacher, Mr. Defler, wrote Henrietta’s name on the chalk board and told us she was ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — 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 ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story of a poor black tobacco farmer who unknowingly became one of the most important figures in modern medical research.

Henrietta Lacks is best known as the woman whose cancer cells originate the HeLa line which has been used extensively in medical research since the 1950s in North America. Lack’s cells are ...

Aided by a young journalist, a woman searches for clues about her mother, who died of cancer in 1951 but not before samples of healthy and cancerous tissues were secretly harvested from her and ...

Danville reporter Grace Mamon was named Young Journalist of the Year while education reporter Lisa Rowan and political ...

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research, settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of ...

Attorney Ben Crump, center, holds Zayden Joseph, 6, the great-grandson of Henrietta Lacks, while standing with attorneys and other descendants of Lacks, whose cells have been used in medical ...