The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group, aimed at preserving the history of Lacks and her contributions to medicine, is the June 2025 winner of the Chick-fil-A Everyday Heroes award.

18 June 2025 As part of the University of Bristol’s ongoing commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in science, researchers in the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine recently hosted two ...

Henrietta Lacks was a poor African-American woman whose cells have been used in scientific research for decades. Her story has been told in a best-selling book — and now an awesome middle school ...

Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951, but her cells mysteriously kept on living. Since then her "immortal" cell line has been the cornerstone of medical breakthroughs that have saved millions.

The latest lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta Lacks, filed in a federal court in Maryland, names Novartis Pharma, Novartis Gene Therapies, and Viatris, which was formerly known as Mylan ...

Lacks was aged 31, and a mother of five when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. She died soon after in a segregated ward at Johns Hopkins, unaware that her cells had been taken for ...

Hinsdale High School District 86 officials seem ready to end the years-long effort to align course opportunities between ...

Year: 1975 Director: Michael Schultz Runtime: 1h 47m One of the curiously few movies made about Black teens in high school, the wonderfully ’60s-set, ’70s-made Cooley High is two movies in one.

In 2004, the School Board approved a $1.6 million contract with Samuel G. Taylor Jr. and Sally Rollins Taylor to buy 53 acres on Whiteside Road with access to sewer facilities.

Apple TV+'s Your Friends and Neighbors looks like sharp satire but plays it safe, polished, and promising, but it is missing something.