Henrietta Lacks Estate Sues Company Using Her 'Stolen' Cells - NewsBreak

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By Martin in Business
Updated 3 years ago

The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of "a racially unjust medical system." Tissue taken from the woman's tumor before she...

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