Just days after settling with Thermo Fisher for an undisclosed sum, the family of Henrietta Lacks has filed a lawsuit against Ultragenyx, another US biotech that it accuses of profiting from cells ...

Novartis and Viatris have become the latest pharma companies to be named in lawsuits claiming that they profited from the unlawful use of HeLa cells derived from cells taken from a cancer patient in ...

In the photo, she stands with a determined yet friendly expression on her face, hands on her hips, as if she's ready to face the future, no matter what it might bring. She is Henrietta Lacks, and she ...

Closed circular mitochondrial DNA molecules which are catenated, or connected like the links in a chain, have been identified in extracts of HeLa cells.