Medical breakthroughs sprang from one woman’s cells
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
Henrietta Lacks’ tissue was taken and used for research without her approval, raising issues about consent and compensation for modern research. Sixty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer, her cells live on in laboratories around the globe. Collected by Johns Hopkins researchers as she was being treated, the cells grew incessantly — and they've since helped scientists make blockbuster medical advances,...