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Feds and Lacks family reach DNA use deal
The Lacks family gains a say over HeLa cell DNA access under a NIH accord. Two family members join a six person committee regulating genetic data access and will be acknowledged in papers. Ethicists applaud the move as a step toward privacy and family involvement in HeLa related research.
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New York
Baltimore
Henrietta Lacks
Lacks
National Institutes of Health
Henrietta
David Lacks Jr
Jeri Lacks White
Ming
NIH
Ellen Wright Clayton
Vanderbilt University
Centre For Biomedical Ethics and Society