Biotech Firm Is Paying Up Big-Time to Henrietta Lacks’s Family ...Middle East

The multi-billion dollar biotech company that has used Henrietta Lacks’s cells, taken without her consent or knowledge, for 70 years is paying up, after reaching a historic settlement with her living relatives.In 1951, Lacks was treated for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. During the treatment, researchers secretly sampled cells from her cervix. Lacks died of her cancer a few months later, and around the same time, researchers discovered her cells were capable of regenerating outside the body.They shared the “HeLa” cells with other scientists, and the cells have since been used to develop vaccines for polio and Covid-19, as well as the world’s most common fer

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