Deal Reached with NIH over Henrietta Lacks' Cell Line

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Deborah Lacks wanted answers. In 1974, she asked a leading medical geneticist to tell her about HeLa cells, a tissue-culture cell line derived from the cancer that had killed her mother Henrietta in... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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