At some point the truth becomes undeniable. Justice at last for Henrietta Lacks and family. Your life mattered ❤️❤️ ・・・ The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached a settlement with a biotechnology company that continually used her cells, according to the family's lawyer Ben Crump. In 1951, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland collected cancer cells from Lacks, a Black woman, without her knowledge. They did so while Lacks was getting a biopsy, during which they discovered a tumor in her cervix. Known as HeLa cells, they were the first human cells to be successfully cloned. Since then, HeLa cells have played a pivotal role in modern medicine, enabling numerous scientific breakthroughs, including the development of genetic mapping and the polio and COVID-19 vaccines. However, the Lacks family never received any compensation as a result of the cells' use. The family's lawyers argued that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a Massachusetts-based biotech firm, ‘continued to commerciali...