Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s attorneys said.
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s attorneys said.
Took them long enough, they know they were wrong for that
This is beyond fkd up. There's a Michael Crichton novel Next that has an extremely similar premise where the rights to a living character's DNA fell under eminent domain and was upheld by courts of law. So his DNA could be sourced and used without his consent. Super interesting fkd up read that is apparently become a non-fiction topic now.