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Henrietta Lacks’ cells led to medical breakthroughs despite her lack of consent. Now her family is suing a pharmaceutical company. – USA TODAY
HeLa cells, named after Henrietta Lacks, were taken from her body without her consent. They led to major medical breakthroughs…
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken from her without her consent in the 1950s and have led to scores of medical breakthroughs, is suing a pharmaceutical company profiting off her cell line, civil rights attorney Ben Crump…
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