The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks May Set Another Precedent – A Legal One
The now posthumously-famous Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman treated at the John Hopkins Hospital for cervical cancer in the 1950’s. Researchers had been working unsuccessfully for 30 years to find human cells that could survive outside the body. Then along came Ms. Lacks and her particularly aggressive form of cervical cancer. Little did researchers … Read Article