This video of a so-called HeLa cell dividing demonstrates how sensitive the cell division process is. While all is going well at the beginning of the video, as the clip nears its end you can see the ...

Unlike the HeLa cell line named after her, Henrietta Lacks was little heard of until the 2010 publication of Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920 in Virginia, ...

The HeLa cells were cut from Lacks' cervix without her knowledge during a cancer-treatment procedure at a Baltimore hospital in 1951. The cell line was the first to survive and reproduce ...

separating the parent cell into its two daughter cells. A HeLa cell can range from 20 micrometers to 40 micrometers across, or roughly a quarter to half the width of a human hair, while actin ...

The tissue sample that became the HeLa cell line was cut from Lacks' cervix at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore without her knowledge during surgery to treat her cervical cancer. Lacks died of ...

It also claims that Ultragenyx was aware of the origins of the HeLa cell line, but never sought or received permission from the estate of Henrietta Lacks to use them. The biotech – which has a ...

of Waltham, Massachusetts, continued to commercialize the results well after the origins of the HeLa cell line became well known. The company unjustly enriched itself off Lacks’ cells ...

HeLa cells were the first human cells that researchers could grow and multiply endlessly in the lab. This gave researchers across the world a steady supply of the same cells to test on.

The family’s lawsuit against Thermo Fisher said the company had “made staggering profits by using the HeLa cell line — all while Ms. Lacks’ Estate and family haven’t seen a dime.” ...

BALTIMORE - The family of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit against two more pharmaceutical companies for profiting from her immortal HeLa cells without their consent. Lacks' family is suing ...

Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her or her family’s permission and used to generate the HeLa cell line – the world’s first ...

Tissues consist of a heterogeneous mixture of different cell types, complicating our understanding of their biological ...