Two of Henrietta Lacks’ family members spoke at an Interfaith Bioethics conference to honor her legacy and emphasize ...

Yesterday, Maryland lawmakers in Annapolis took a high-profile step to create a state commission named for Henrietta Lacks, the Turner Station resident whose cells were taken without her knowledge and ...

Johns Hopkins University says it will honor Henrietta Lacks with a new building over 60 years after the university took her cells without her consent. Lacks was a black patient at Johns Hopkins ...

The Trade-off Between Physiological Authenticity and Experimental Convenience: Navigating the Cellular Foundation of ...

Our legislature just passed a bill (HB1077) labeling cell cultured protein as adulterated and thus unfit for human consumption. The bill went to Governor Rhoden’s desk and he promptly vetoed it. He ...

Sometimes a single book lands in your lap at exactly the right moment and flips your entire worldview upside down. It's wild ...

Turner Station resident Henrietta Lacks died at the age of 31 while undergoing treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins ...

On the first day of school during Black History Month, Ruth Duran assigned her sixth graders in the Bronx the story of a key figure overlooked in most history books. The civics class at P.S. 315 The ...

Publisher Knights Peak and developer Windup Games announced the Scandinavian-inspired 3D adventure puzzle game, Hela, will launch for the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via ...

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When Robert Atchison and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh first stumbled across adeno-associated viruses (AAV) in 1965, they initially supposed they were merely defective byproducts of ...