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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Doctors at John Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks' cervical cells without her knowledge or consent before she died of cervical cancer. Lawyers for her family say that the biotechnology company, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc continued to commercialize these results long after their origins became well known. The case highlights the reality of medical racism in the United States.
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