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Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine


Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge

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