In the lawsuit, Lacks' estate asked that the company "disgorge the full amount of its net profits obtained by commercializing the HeLa cell line to the Estate of Henrietta Lacks." The suit also ...

BALTIMORE -- 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 asked a judge to award the Henrietta Lacks' estate three years of profit obtained by commercializing the HeLa cells and prohibit the company from using HeLa cells without the family's ...

"Not only were the HeLa cells derived from Henrietta Lacks — the HeLa cells are Henrietta Lacks," Ben Crump, an attorney for the family, said during a news conference Tuesday. Thermo Fisher ...

By Amanda Holpuch Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five ... off the deeply unethical and unlawful history and origins of the HeLa cells will continue,” he said. Ms. Lacks was 31 when she ...

Here’s what you need to know about Henrietta Lacks’ cells or HeLa cells and why they remain crucial for medical research today. The answer has to do with particular mutations in her cells ...

In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old ... As a cancer researcher who uses HeLa cells in my everyday work, even I sometimes ...

These cells were nicknamed 'HeLa' cells, after Henrietta Lacks. Because the HeLa cells could be divided multiple times without dying, they became known as 'immortal.' The cells have been crucial ...

Henrietta Lacks died, aged just 31, on October 4, 1951, unaware that she had unwittingly left behind an extraordinary legacy. Some 70 years on, the cell line from the original HeLa cells is still ...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO.N), opens new tab has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of Henrietta ... the HeLa cell line was cut from Lacks ...

"Ultragenyx asks this Court to find that its acquisition and use of HeLa cells is too remote from the seizure of cells from Henrietta Lacks for Lacks to state a claim for unjust enrichment ...

“Any and everybody…benefitted from the HeLa cell,” said Kimberly Lacks, granddaughter of Henrietta Lacks, at the Aug. 1 press conference and celebration. The Lacks family, along with ...