Family of Henrietta Lacks settles with Thermo Fisher over claims they profited by cloning her cervical cells in a racist medical system
More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist…
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