Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off ...

In a little-noticed move, Novartis last week settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, resolving claims that it profited from using her "immortal" cells without permission.

Unlike anything the doctors, researchers, and lab technicians had ever seen, Lacks’ cells continued to live and multiply while all other tissue sample cells died within days of their extraction from ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks sued two pharmaceutical giants for unjust enrichment on Monday, arguing they profited from Lacks’ genetic material without consent. The suit against Novartis ...

Johns Hopkins honored Henrietta Lacks' legacy by naming a building in her honor on Monday.Lacks' cells, known as HeLa cells, were taken without her knowledge in 1951 by researchers at Johns Hopkins ...

and her contributions to the fight against polio. Just days later, submissions closed for the Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative’s contest to design a memorial in her native Halifax County, Virginia.

"Now, Henrietta Lacks' grandson, Ron Lacks, says Ultragenyx unjustly reaps some of the benefits of the wrongs against his grandmother," District Judge Deborah L. Boardman said. "Ultragenyx says it has ...