Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit with biotech giant, lawyer says
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cancer cells were used without permission to form the basis of decades of scientific research, has reached a settlement with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific. The cells, known as HeLa cells, were taken from Lacks without her knowledge…
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