Family Gets Review on Immortal Cells That Led to 74,000 Studies, Nature Reveals
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Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without consent and used in 74,000 medical studies since the 1950s, will have a say over how that genomic data will be used. Any scientist receiving National Institutes of Health funds to study the cells’ genome must apply to a panel of scientists and two of Lacks’s descendants for access to the information, according to guidelines published in the journal Nature.
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Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without consent and used in 74,000 medical studies since the 1950s, will have a say over how that genomic data will be used. Any scientist receiving National Institutes of Health funds to study the cells’ genome must apply to a panel of scientists and two of Lacks’s descendants for access to the information, according to guidelines published in the journal Nature.
Hey, check out all the research scientist jobs. Post your resume today!