Johns Hopkins honored Henrietta Lacks' legacy by naming a building in ... her knowledge in 1951 by researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The cells have made major contributions to the medical ...

They were joined by university and community leaders, federal and local elected officials, and several descendants of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks was a 31-year-old Black mother of five from Baltimore ...

Johns Hopkins honored Henrietta Lacks' legacy by naming a building in ... her knowledge in 1951 by researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The cells have made major contributions to the medical ...

Maryland lawmakers introduced a bill Monday to posthumously award Henrietta Lacks a Congressional Gold Medal for her ...

(Karl Merton Ferron/Staff) Invitees watch the groundbreaking ceremony of the multidisciplinary space to be named the Henrietta Lacks Building near Johns Hopkins Hospital. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff ...

Her cells became fundamental to medicine But Henrietta Lacks' cells were taken without consent. Lacks was 31 when she received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 for cervical cancer.

The family of Henrietta Lacks ... from her cervix without her consent during a procedure at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Lacks died later that year from the cancer at the age of 31.

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a ...

BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a ...

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Lacks’ history with Johns Hopkins is a controversial one. After seeking treatment at the institution’s hospital, the 31-year-old mother of five was ...