Vancouver high school named after Henrietta Lacks honors woman whose cells revolutionized medicine, teaching students about both contributions and ethics.

A traveling exhibit on Henrietta Lacks is coming to Kalamazoo Public Schools’ high schools.

Loudoun County Public Schools named a primary school after Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who’s had a lasting medical impact on the world. The district gathered to honor Lacks in a ...

A Magna Vista High School sophomore won big in this year's Eastman Black History Month Oratorical Contest.

Roland Pattillo protected Henrietta Lacks' memory. He died leaving that legacy Lacks, a Black mother in Baltimore, died from cervical cancer in 1951. Her tumor cells, taken without her knowledge ...

The second forum is the Henrietta Lacks High School Symposium, which brings youth together from Baltimore City to Johns Hopkins to spend a day learning about bioethics and bioethical research.

The complex scientific, racial and social issues surrounding the “immortal cells” of Henrietta Lacks will be explored by members of her family when they speak at UB’s sixth annual conference on ...

Henrietta Lacks’ cells revolutionized medicine, aiding vaccine development and advancing the understanding of cancer and other diseases.

Henrietta Lacks Elementary and Watson Mountain Middle School were built to lower electricity costs with solar panels on the roof and automatic lights that shut off when classrooms are empty.

Henrietta Lacks, often called the ‘Mother of Modern Medicine,’ has left a legacy that transcends generations and continues to save millions of lives.

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the ...