Another settlement in long fight over Henrietta Lacks’ cells For decades, the story of Henrietta Lacks has carried a painful contradiction: cells taken from her body helped transform modern medicine, yet the Black woman behind them died poor and unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now, more than 70 years later, her estate has reached a settlement with pharmaceutical giant Novartis — ending a […]

'Another settlement in long fight over Henrietta Lacks’ cells'

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