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

Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when ...

More than 70 years after Henrietta Lacks’ cells were taken without her knowledge, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies has agreed to settle with her family. Novartis has resolved a ...

Novartis AG NVS has reportedly reached a confidential settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, decades after her cells were taken without consent and used in global medical research. The ...

Novartis is the second drug company to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman whose cells have enabled huge advances in science.

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.

The Henrietta Lacks estate has secured a settlement with Novartis over the unauthorized use of her cancer cells, while ...

Seventy-five years later, Mass. researchers reflect on how HeLa cells have become the cornerstone of modern medicine.

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 ...

It’s the second settlement in lawsuits filed by the estate that accused biomedical businesses of reaping rewards from a ...