Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells Lacks, a Black woman, was suffering from cervical cancer when she was being treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. A surgeon removed cells from her cervix without her consent during a procedure and that sample enabled a doctor at the hospital to create the first human cell line to reproduce outside the body. The cell line, now known as HeLa cells, allowed scientists to experiment […]
