Tissue taken from Henrietta Lacks' tumor before she died of cervical cancer became the first human cells to be successfully cloned, enabling countless scientific and medical innovations. Despite that impact, the Lacks family had never been compensated.
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“The parties are pleased that they were able to find a way to resolve this matter outside of Court and will have no further comment about the settlement,” Thermo Fisher representatives and attorneys for the Lacks family said in a joint statement. Lacks died at age 31 in the “colored ward” of Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was buried in an unmarked grave.
“The exploitation of Henrietta Lacks represents the unfortunately common struggle experienced by Black people throughout history,” the complaint reads. “Too often, the history of medical experimentation in the United States has been the history of medical racism.” Crump, a civil rights attorney, has become well known for representing victims of police violence and calling for racial justice, especially in the aftermath of
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