Second Opinion: A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift

Monday, February 1, 2010 - 17:35 in Health & Medicine

Without her family’s knowledge, doctors used cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks to develop vaccines and life-saving drugs, a case examined in a book that looks at the issue of “tissue rights.”.

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