 The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

Online text: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henrietta-lacks

Institutional history page issued by Johns Hopkins Medicine, with no individual byline or publication date established. The institution is recorded as issuer, not a credited personal author.

Cited passages: Opening history of Henrietta Lacks’s 1951 biopsy and the explanation of the name HeLa. The historical date concerns the biopsy, not publication of this page.