Henrietta Lacks' cells were essential in developing the polio vaccine and were used in scientific landmarks such as cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. Courtesy of the Lacks family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at the University of Bern made a big leap in lip research by successfully immortalizing lip cells from healthy and ...

Seventy-five years ago, long before standards mandating informed consent of research subjects were established, Henrietta Lacks unknowingly became a part of one of the most significant discoveries in ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks has settled a lawsuit over the use of her endlessly reproducing cells, which changed modern medicine and saved millions of lives. Lacks’ surviving family members ...

Cancer biologists have an arsenal of tools and models that can be used to study different aspects of the disease. These models have distinct strengths and weaknesses. For example, immortal cell lines ...

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.

LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters Life!) - The true story of a woman whose cancer cells were removed illicitly during surgery around 60 years ago and helped revolutionise modern medical research has won the ...