SAY HER NAME & PAY HER HEIRS! Mom demands justice for Henrietta Lacks #corporate #politicstiktok #socialjustice #ethics #creatorsearchinsights #tiktokencyclopediacontest

The Mother of modern medicine - was an African American woman named Henrietta lacks whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[B] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. 💊 🤯💯👸🏾 #modernmedicine #blackculture #outdoorlife #oldhead #henriettalacks

Last week, the family of Henrietta Lacks settled its lawsuit against the huge biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific over its claim that the company had been “unjustly enriched” by its use of her cells. Lacks was a Black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, soon after a doctor took a sample from her tumor without her knowledge or consent and created an immortal cell line, HeLa. No financial payments or other terms of the settlement were disclosed, and no judge ruled on the fundamen

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