Alfred Lacks Carter honors grandmother's medical legacy today, fighting medical mistrust through Chicago advocacy and clinical trials.

BALTIMORE - The family of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit against two more pharmaceutical companies for profiting from her immortal HeLa cells without their consent. Lacks' family is suing Novartis ...

BALTIMORE - The family of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit against two more pharmaceutical companies for profiting from her immortal HeLa cells without their consent. Lacks' family is suing ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Though her cells live on in labs across the world, Henrietta Lacks’ life was short and full of challenges, and she remained largely unrecognized during her ...

"Indeed, Black suffering has fueled innumerable medical progress and profit, without just compensation or recognition," says the suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Maryland. Immortal ...

after Henrietta Lacks. Because the HeLa cells could be divided multiple times without dying, they became known as 'immortal.' The cells have been crucial to modern medicine, including the ...

"In loving memory of a phenomenal woman, wife and mother who touched the lives of many. Here lies Henrietta Lacks (HeLa). Her immortal cells will continue to help mankind forever," the gravestone ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose ... as if they were immortal. This "immortality" is common among cancer cells, but Lacks' cells were able to reproduce abnormally fast, even ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement Monday in their lawsuit against a biotech company over the use of the Baltimore woman's immortal cells, known as "HeLa cells." The lawsuit ...