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WALTHAM \u2013 Henrietta Lacks would have been 103 on Tuesday. Her gift is justice. Seventy years ago, Lacks went to the hospital for cancer treatment. Her cells were used for research purposes<\/span> without consent. Those cells went on to revolutionize parts of modern medicine. Now, her family is seeking retribution for their loved one. <\/p>\n

\u00ab Today is a day that will go down in history, \u00bb says Alfred Carter, Lacks\u2019 grandson. \u00ab Today could not have been a more fitting day for her to have justice. \u00bb <\/p>\n

Lacks originally went to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore seeking treatment for cervical cancer. Her cells were taken as part of the procedure; however, they were kept for research purposes without her consent. Doctors discovered that her cells doubled every 20-24 hours instead of dying off. Those cells were the first to be cloned and have been used in numerous medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to cancer treatments.<\/p>\n

\u00ab My grandmother gave the world a gift 70 years ago. We are here to give her a gift, justice, \u00bb adds Lacks\u2019 grandson Lawrence Lacks.<\/p>\n

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Henrietta died in 1951, but her cells live on. Those cells later became known as HeLa cells in her honor; however, companies have been profiting off of those cells for decades. <\/p>\n

\u00ab It\u2019s amazing to find that your grandmother\u2019s cells are used in makeup and used for dog food. Any and everybody in space has someone, or maybe you, have used, bought, or benefited from the HeLa cell, \u00bb explains Lacks\u2019 granddaughter Kim Lacks. <\/p>\n

In 2021, Lacks\u2019 surviving family and grandchildren filed a lawsuit against Waltham-based Thermo Fisher Scientific. They claim the company was mass producing and selling cells and tissue from Lacks, even after it became known how they were acquired. On Tuesday the two came to a settlement. <\/p>\n

\u00ab Probably best for everyone around to just get closure on this because the law is not particularly clear or favorable to revisit these issues from decades prior, \u00bb explains Christopher Robertson, a law professor at Boston University. \u00ab Law is not set up to expropriate all the money made by corporations using these cells. Instead, the law asks for what harm was done to Henrietta Lacks or her family, and this is a question that is not all that clear. \u00bb <\/p>\n

Robertson calls Lacks\u2019 case a landmark when it comes to showing how far the US has come in bioethics and law. <\/p>\n

\u00ab She did consent to have health care, but she didn\u2019t give additional consent that her cells would be used for research. Today that would just be part of the boiler plate paperwork you would sign into Mass MGH or other hospitals in the area, \u00bb details Robertson. \u00ab My understanding is back at that time, the specific consent for second use would have routinely been secured. \u00bb <\/p>\n

At the time, when Lacks went to Johns Hopkins, she entered a segregated part of the hospital. <\/p>\n

\u00ab Henrietta Lacks sought care where she did because she didn\u2019t have many other options. It\u2019s a form of structural racism that put her in that clinic at that time, \u00bb adds Robertson. \u00ab This is not a mistake that Henrietta Lacks was a Black woman. This is where we made a lot of mistakes in treating the most vulnerable people among us and trying to make progress in health law and ethics. \u00bb <\/p>\n