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and her contributions to the fight against polio. Just days later, submissions closed for the Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative’s contest to design a memorial in her native Halifax County, Virginia.
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cells were taken without her consent in 1951 and led to various medical advancements, has reached a settlement with pharmaceutical company Novartis for ...