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 ...

BALTIMORE, MD - MARCH 28: Veronica Spencer, great granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells are some of the most important in medical research, poses at her home with a portrait of her ...

These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — March is Women's History Month, a time to celebrate and recognize the contributions women have made to society. One high school in Vancouver has made an influential woman its ...

said the settlement provides “some measure of justice for Henrietta Lacks, 70 years later.” The 31-year-old Lacks, a tobacco farmer from Virginia and mother of five, died of cervical cancer in ...

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 found a tumor ...

This research field was to change forever when, in 1951, the cells taken from a cancer biopsy survived in culture. Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer from Virginia ...

Tissue taken from the Black woman’s tumor before she died of cervical ... “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” which was published in 2010. Oprah Winfrey portrayed her daughter in an ...

Henrietta Lacks' cells are responsible for boundless biotechnological advancements in the medical world. Morgan State University and the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum are partnering to honor ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of African American History and Culture have jointly acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks. She was being treated for cervical ...

Cancer took Henrietta Lacks, her cells brought forth new science, her family brought her story home. Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of the critically-acclaimed book.