Attorney Ben Crump, center, holds Zayden Joseph, 6, the great-grandson of the late Henrietta Lacks, during a news conference Monday outside of the federal courthouse in Baltimore with Mrs. Lacks’ family members and other attorneys. The Lacks estate is filing suit against a Massachusetts company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, for using Mrs. Lacks’ cells, known as HeLa cells, without the estate’s permission.
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Henrietta Lacks estate sues company using her ‘stolen’ cells
COLLEGE PARK, Md. The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of sell- ing cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of “a racially unjust medical system.”
