Family of Henrietta Lacks settles with Thermo Fisher over claims they profited by cloning her cervical cells in a racist medical system

Tissue from the Black woman’s cervical cancer tumor were the first human cells to be successfully cloned. The HeLa cells have been reproduced infinitely ever since.

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles with Thermo Fisher over claims they profited by cloning her cervical cells in a racist medical system
Tissue from the Black woman’s cervical cancer tumor were the first human cells to be successfully cloned. The HeLa cells have been reproduced infinitely ever since. Read More