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  • Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks’ family settle lawsuit over HeLa tissue harvested in 1950s

    08/02/2023 2:42:06 PM PDT · by RandFan · 44 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Aug 2 | Staff
    Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, a long-deceased cancer victim whose “immortal” cells have lived on to fuel biomedical research for decades, lawyers for the estate have said. The story of Lacks, a young African American woman who died in Baltimore in 1951, was made famous in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which became a movie in 2017 featuring Oprah Winfrey. The HeLa cell line, the first to survive and reproduce indefinitely in lab conditions, has been cultivated in vast quantities and used in...