On 7 August 2013, the US Nat ional Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it had reached an agreement with the descendants of Henrietta Lacks concerning NIHfunded uses of the HeLa cell line [1], which, over the past 60 years has been featured in tens of thousands of experiments all over the world, and even in outer space. The origin of these cells, although never a secret, did not become w...
