Henrietta Lacks’ Family Settles Historic HeLa Cell Lawsuit with Biotech Company
On what would have been Henrietta Lacks’ 103rd birthday, justice has finally been served for her family. A settlement has been reached with Thermo Fisher Scientific, a biotech company accused of using Henrietta’s cells without her consent in the 1950s to develop and profit from various products. Henrietta Lacks was undergoing treatment for cervical cancer […]