{"id":10823,"date":"2026-02-28T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/henrietta-lacks-novartis-settlement-over-hela-cell-line\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:02:49","slug":"henrietta-lacks-novartis-settlement-over-hela-cell-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/henrietta-lacks-novartis-settlement-over-hela-cell-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrietta Lacks\u2019 estate settles with Novartis over the \u2018stolen cells\u2019 that advanced science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Henrietta Lacks\u2019 estate settles with Novartis over the \u2018stolen cells\u2019 that advanced science<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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 in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the agreement, which was finalized in federal court in Maryland this month, aren\u2019t public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/28\/henrietta-lacks-novartis-settlement-over-hela-cell-line\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Associated Press<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/28\/henrietta-lacks-novartis-settlement-over-hela-cell-line\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henrietta Lacks\u2019 estate settles with Novartis over the \u2018stolen cells\u2019 that advanced science 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 in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1537,1428,2218,4386,2155,4852,858],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-health","category-in-the-lab","category-novartis","category-pharmaceuticals","category-racism","category-research","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}