March 1 (UPI) -- The family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without her consent as she battled cervical cancer, settled a lawsuit with Novartis. Lacks, who was just 31 when died in 1951 and buried in an unmarked grave, was receiving treatment in a Johns Hopkins Hospital segregated ward when her cells were harvested without her knowledge. Her cells have since led to vaccines for polio, Covid-19 and HPV, as well as HIV /Aids, leukemia, Parkinson 's and flu treatments. "To the modern

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