The National Institutes of Health has announced that it had reached an agreement with the family of the late Henrietta Lacks, the African-American woman whose cancer cells scientists took without her permission 62 years ago and used to create an endlessly replicating cell line now used in countless labs worldwide. NIH director Dr Francis Collins and bioethicist Kathy Hudson, NIH deputy director for science, outreach, and policy, wrote about the agreement in an essay published in Nature. Read more here.
Article mentioned: Hudson KL, Collins FS. 2013. Biospecimen policy: Family matters. Nature. 500: 141–142.
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