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Purchasing HeLa Cells: What You Need to Know

HeLa cells, the world's first immortal human cell line, have played a crucial role in advancing scientific research and biotechnology. Derived from the cervical cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks in 1951, HeLa cells have been indispensable in numerous ...

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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.

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Turner Station Faces Challenges And Opportunities After Bridge Collapse

Turner Station residents face challenges post-bridge collapse, rallying together for revitalization and preservation of heritage.

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50 People Share The Most Bone-Chilling Medical Facts That Might Give You Goosebumps

Ever wondered about the dark side of the human body? These disturbing medical facts will make you think twice about what you know. The post 50 People Share The Most Bone-Chilling Medical Facts That Might Give You Goosebumps first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The Tulsa race massacre affected the ‘economic freedom’ of generations

The reality of the court’s decision is that there isn’t a number to quantify Black pain for survivors and their lineage

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Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere; Megan Rooney: Echoes and Hours – review

Forgotten Black heroes, from spacemen to musicians, are celebrated in an enthralling show by the New York-based Bahamian. Megan Rooney’s singular murals, meanwhile, are a riot of colour and incident

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Family of Henrietta Lacks files new lawsuit over cells harvested without her consent

The family of Henrietta Lacks has filed another lawsuit accusing a second company of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations

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Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles

In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. settled a lawsuit that the estate of Henrietta Lacks had filed against the biotech firm for its role in what the lawsuit called “a racially unjust…

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Bigoted, antisemitic, gross: Rudy Giuliani finds an even lower low

He was once ‘America’s mayor’, but court filings this week show him vilifying women, Jews and gay people. It’s his latest disgrace

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Settlement with family of Henrietta Lacks is an opportunity to reflect on inequalities in genetic research

Aug. 1, 2023 would have been Henrietta Lacks’s 103rd birthday. It was also the day the Lacks family reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech company that used and profited from her “HeLa” cells.

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How Henrietta Lacks' Immortal “HeLa Cells” Transformed Medicine

Henrietta Lacks unknowingly gave a great gift to science.

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Up First briefing: Trump's 3rd indictment; U.S. loses AAA rating; heat and the brain

Donald Trump is indicted on felony charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Fitch Ratings downgrades the U.S. credit rating. This is your brain on heat.

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First Thing: Donald Trump faces four charges over efforts to overturn 2020 election

Latest criminal case before ex-president has come weeks after he was charged with retaining national defense information. Plus, experts warn of record US deaths from extreme heat

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Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit with biotechnology company over her cells, which were taken without her knowledge and used to develop medical innovations. After 70 years, Lacks' descendants reach settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. over unjust enrichment from her cells.

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

Cells taken without consent from cancer victim can reproduce indefinitely and were sold for unjust profit by Thermo Fisher Scientific, relatives argued

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Henrietta Lacks family settles lawsuit

Decades after her death, Lacks continues to make incredible contributions to medical science

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‘Black suffering’: Henrietta Lacks medical research lawsuit settled in US

Cells taken in 1951 from Lacks, a Black woman, without her knowledge became the cornerstone of modern medical research.

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Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit against biotech firm Thermo Fisher Scientific

The federal lawsuit in Baltimore claimed Thermo Fisher Scientific has made billions from tissue taken without Henrietta Lacks’s consent from her cervical cancer tumor.

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The Independent UK

Biotech company settles lawsuit for profiting off of woman’s cloned cells for seven decades

Henrietta Lacks’ unique ‘Hela’ cells played a crucial role in the development of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments for HIV, leukemia and cancer

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Henrietta Lacks' descendants reach a settlement over the use of her 'stolen' cells

Her genetic material, taken without her knowledge in 1951, has helped facilitate numerous scientific breakthroughs, including the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines.

The Independent UK

Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine

The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells

Fortune

3 factors driving health care inequality—and ideas for how we can solve it

'The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. The same is true for health...The underserved get sicker.'

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Liverpool Everyman Theatre tells story of stolen body cells that changed the course of medical history

Family Tree is a play about a woman's body cells taken without her consent or knowledge

The Guardian - UK

Family Tree review – study of the mother of modern medicine falls between poetry and play

Mojisola Adebayo’s play connects Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used in decades of vital scientific research, with the Black Lives Matter movement

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Family of Henrietta Lacks asks court to reject Thermo Fisher’s second motion to dismiss lawsuit

BALTIMORE — Family members of Henrietta Lacks are asking a federal judge to reject Thermo Fisher Scientific’s second attempt to get the court to dismiss the family’s lawsuit against the multimillion-dollar biotech company.

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