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.
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