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Thermo Fisher, Lacks family settle lawsuit over ‘immortal’ HeLa cell line

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has settled a lawsuit with the family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cells — taken without her knowledge during cervical cancer treatments — have been used in unquantifiable scientific research, but whose family has never been compensated.

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