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One of the world’s most prestigious laboratories is frantically trying to resolve a row over its decision to publish the genome of one of the world’s most studied human cell lines – a set of cervical cancer cells.
The cells were taken in 1951 from a woman called Henrietta Lacks, without her consent. Her descendants argue that the published genome may reveal genetic traits of family members…
After publishing the HeLa genome in the online journal G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics, researchers led by Lars Steinmetz at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, withdrew the data following a barrage of objections.
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