GENEVA (AP) — The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. ABC7 was joined by special guests head of an event Saturday at Imani Village promoting cancer prevention and more representation for Black ...

GARY — Immortality comes with a catch. Something may be taken without your say. Even your loved ones won’t learn about it until decades later. So it was for the family of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black ...

Henrietta Lacks has saved a countless numbers of lives, and that was after she died from cervical cancer in 1951. More than six decades ago, cells from Lacks’ body became the first human cells to ever ...

The story of Henrietta Lacks and her “immortal” cells is not quite over. Her eldest son, Lawrence Lacks, has come forth requesting compensation from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and possibly ...

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 ...

This event marks the beginning of construction of the building, which will support programs within Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute for Bioethics, the School of Medicine, and other ...

People in Baltimore are coming together this weekend to put the final touches on a mural honoring the legacy of Henrietta Lacks, known as the "mother of modern medicine." Loretta Pleasant, known to ...