Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells

Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.The lawyer Ben Crump, second from left, walking with Henrietta Lacks’s grandsons Ron Lacks, left, and Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, and other descendants in Baltimore in 2021.