Henrietta 欠如(する)s' 広い地所 says pharma company 利益(をあげる)d from stolen 独房s

By Blake Brittain

(Reuters) Oct 4 - The 広い地所 of a 黒人/ボイコット woman whose cervical 独房s were taken from her 10年間s ago without her 許可 告訴するd a 製薬の company on Monday, 説 it made a "conscious choice" to 集まり produce the 独房s and 利益(をあげる) from a "人種上 不正な 医療の system."

Henrietta 欠如(する)s' 広い地所 hasn't "seen a 薄暗い" of the 歳入 Thermo Fisher 科学の made from cultivating the HeLa 独房 line that was taken from 欠如(する)s at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, によれば the 訴訟 とじ込み/提出するd in Maryland 連邦の 法廷,裁判所.

"The 開発/利用 of Henrietta 欠如(する)s 代表するs the unfortunately ありふれた struggle experienced by 黒人/ボイコット people throughout U.S. history. Indeed, 黒人/ボイコット 苦しむing has 燃料d innumerable 医療の 進歩 and 利益(をあげる), without just 補償(金) or 承認," the 控訴 says.

Waltham, Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher didn't すぐに 答える/応じる to a request for comment.

Ben Crump, a civil 権利s 弁護士/代理人/検事 who has also 代表するd the families of George Floyd, Trayvon ツバメ, and Michael Brown に引き続いて their deaths, 代表するs 欠如(する)s' 広い地所.

Ron 欠如(する)s, Henrietta's grandson, is the executor of her 広い地所.

欠如(する)s' story was chronicled in the 2010 best-selling 調書をとる/予約する and the 2017 film both 肩書を与えるd "The Immortal Life of Henrietta 欠如(する)s."

The tissue 見本 for the HeLa 独房 line was taken from 欠如(する)s at Johns Hopkins during a 手続き to 扱う/治療する her cervical 癌, which left her infertile, によれば the 訴訟.

欠如(する)s, who wasn't told that Johns Hopkins planned to take the 見本s and didn't 同意 to it, died of 癌 later that year.

Since then, the HeLa line, the first to 生き残る and 再生する 無期限に/不明確に in lab 条件s, has been used to 実験(する) the polio ワクチン, 研究 the 影響s of 放射(能) on human 独房s, and develop a 治療 for sickle-独房 anemia, によれば the 控訴.

The 控訴 asks the 法廷,裁判所 to award 欠如(する)s' 広い地所 the 利益(をあげる)s from Thermo Fisher's u se of the HeLa line and 永久的に 封鎖する it from using the line without 許可.

"Put 簡単に, because it made the conscious choice to 利益(をあげる) from the 強襲,強姦 of Henrietta 欠如(する)s, Thermo Fisher 科学の's ill-gotten 伸び(る)s rightfully belong to Ms. 欠如(する)s' 広い地所," the 訴訟 says. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Blake Brittain; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Aurora Ellis)

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