BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — A federal judge in Maryland rejected a pharmaceutical company’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of Henrietta Lacks over the use of cells taken from her ...

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 ...