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Who Was Henrietta Lacks? All About The Black Woman Behind The First ‘Immortalized’ Cells
The family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cervical tumor cells scientists have been able to clone and use to develop treatments and vaccines without her nor her family’s knowledge, recently reached a confidential settlement with Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company Thermo Fisher…
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