Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Lacks began feeling 'knots' in her stomach in 1950, and was diagnosed with cervical cancer by Johns ...

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.

The legacy of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used without her consent for groundbreaking medical research, continues to reverberate through the realms of science and ...

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