Finally, the family wants the company to cease producing products using the cells without permission from the estate. Lacks' tissue was taken from her without her consent by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a racially unjust medical system," the lawsuit continues. Lacks' Estate. More lawsuits related to the HeLa cells may pop up in the near future. The Lacks estate has reportedly been looking into other big companies that have used their matriarch's cells without their permission , and that list is very long; an attorney for the family said that their early investigation into the matter implicated nearly different companies.
As the party responsible for the collection and circulation of the HeLa cells, Johns Hopkins Hospital could also be facing a lawsuit of its own. Nonetheless, the hospital maintains that it "never sold or profited from the discovery or distribution" of Lacks' genetic material, blaming the initial collection of the cells on an insufficient protocol.
This is a developing story. Update: Netflix has fired the employee who was organizing an upcoming walkout set to happen Wednesday, October 20 of trans staffers and allies in protest. In the s, a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital to be treated for cervical cancer, and her cells would go on to b. While the Census was essential to many communities across the United States, it held a different meaning for Puerto Ricans.
More lawsuits related to the HeLa cells may pop up in the near future. As the party responsible for the collection and circulation of the HeLa cells, Johns Hopkins Hospital could also be facing a lawsuit of its own.
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