for her family to have relief,” Henrietta’s grandson Alfred Lacks Carter Jr. said, according to The Associated Press. “It was a long fight — over 70 years — and Henrietta Lacks gets her ...

Henrietta Lacks’ family recently settled their lawsuit with the biotechnology company that kept and used her cancer cells without her consent. In 2021, the Henrietta Lacks estate filed a lawsuit ...

for her family to have relief,” Carter said. “It was a long fight — over 70 years — and Henrietta Lacks gets her day.” ...

But lawyers for her family argued that Thermo Fisher Scientific ... “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” which was published in 2010. Oprah Winfrey portrayed her daughter in an HBO movie ...

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.

Henrietta Lacks never signed a form saying she allowed her cells to be used for research. Her family was never fully informed of the work done with Henrietta’s cells, or their own blood.

In the 1940s, the cancerous cells of Henrietta Lacks were taken by doctors at the Johns Hopkins ... research but researchers ...

In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward ... Yet, Henrietta and her family never gave consent for any of this. Her family was not informed or compensated.

Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer ... which was not uncommon at the time. Her family were not even aware of the existence of these cells till 1973. The story came to broader ...

Bristol-born artist Helen Wilson-Roe with her statue of Henrietta Lacks (Ben Birchall/PA) It was only in 1975 that by chance the family found out about her legacy. Mrs Lacks’ son, Lawrence ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of story ... Yet she is virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. Author Rebecca Skloot takes readers on ...

settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells. Henrietta Lacks estate ...