Two bio-pharmaceutical companies face a lawsuit this morning from the family of Henrietta Lacks. The family is suing Novartis and Viatris for their use of he-la cells back in 1951. Lacks was a cancer ...
These are known as HeLa cells because they were originally isolated from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She went to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in 1951 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She ...