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☆ Opinion | The Unsettled Debate at the Heart of the Henrietta Lacks Case
  + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To an ordinary person, the answer is obviously yes. Lacks, a Black mother of five, was dying of cervical cancer in 1951 when doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore biopsied tissues from her cervix. Whatever the case, cells from the research sample were later found to be highly valuable because they were the first that could divide indefinitely in a laboratory. And cells are “de-identified,” unlike Lacks’s cells, which are named HeLa to this day. What’s still debated is whether people have a legitimate ownership claim in the first place.
Persons: it’s, Henrietta Lacks, HeLa, What’s Organizations: Johns Hopkins Hospital Locations: Baltimore
☆ Family of Henrietta Lacks Settles with Biotech Company That Used Her Cells
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | More About Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without consent and used to pioneer numerous medical discoveries, reached a settlement on Monday with a biotechnology company that had used the cells. Lacks, who died decades ago, accused the company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, of selling the cells and trying to secure intellectual property rights on the products the cells were used to help develop without compensating the family or seeking their permission or approval. The terms of the settlement are confidential, lawyers for both parties said in a statement. Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company, and the legal team for Ms. Lacks’s family released identical statements announcing the settlement. “The parties are pleased that they were able to find a way to resolve this matter outside of Court and will have no further comment,” the statements said.
Persons: Henrietta Lacks, Lacks’s Locations: Massachusetts
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