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Family Of Black Woman Whose Stolen Cells Enabled Modern Medical Research Will Finally Be Compensated

Por: The Root Health August 01, 2023

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The family of a Black woman has finally reached a settlement in a 2021 lawsuit with the biotech company they say used biopsied cells that were taken without her permission over 70 years ago. nnHenrietta Lacks’ family was seeking restitution from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the company they say has been using her cells in medical research for decades. And they enlisted the help of high-profile civil rights attorney Ben Crump in July 2021 to help... + full article



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