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Law Pod UK
152: The multibillion dollar claim for Henrietta Lacks's cell line
27 minutes Posted Nov 15, 2021 at 5:00 am.
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Rosalind English talks with Professor Jacob Sherkow about a recent claim brought by the Henrietta Lacks Estate, against Thermo Fisher Scientific, in the USA. Lacks's "immortal cells" have benefited "nearly every realm of medicine" in the 70 years since her death.

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