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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.

Seventy-five years ago, long before standards mandating informed consent of research subjects were established, Henrietta Lacks unknowingly became a part of one of the most significant discoveries in ...

More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a ...