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152: The multibillion dollar claim for Henrietta Lacks's cell line
Episode 152

152: The multibillion dollar claim for Henrietta Lacks's cell line

Law Pod UK

November 15, 202127m 58s

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Show Notes

Rosalind English talks with Professor Jacob Sherkow about a recent claim brought by the Henrietta Lacks Estate, against Thermo Fisher Scientific, in the USA. Lacks's "immortal cells" have benefited "nearly every realm of medicine" in the 70 years since her death.

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