Honoring the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks: The Need for a Biospecimen Consent Policy

In this Viewpoint, the NIH director and acting chief of staff discuss how Henrietta Lacks ’ cervical cancer cells (HeLa) were used without her consent to create an immortal cell line used widely in modern medical research, and argue for development of policies to prevent unauthorized use of biological specimens to prevent the same thing from happening again.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research