"Now, Henrietta Lacks' grandson, Ron Lacks, says Ultragenyx unjustly reaps some of the benefits of the wrongs against his grandmother," District Judge Deborah L. Boardman said. "Ultragenyx says it has ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — A federal judge in Maryland rejected a pharmaceutical company’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of Henrietta Lacks over the use of cells taken from her ...

HELA is the mascot of Decentralized Science (DeSci) movement, striving to make science popular and fun (again). Inspired by the discovery of HeLa cells, one of the most valuable and timeless ...

and her contributions to the fight against polio. Just days later, submissions closed for the Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative’s contest to design a memorial in her native Halifax County, Virginia.

Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without permission and used since the 1950s in life-saving research, will now have a say in how that genomic information will be studied.

The original version of this story was published on Law.com An unjust enrichment claim filed by the grandson of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cervical cancer cells were taken without her ...