Larceny on cells. Doctors, often unknowingly to the patient, use a patient’s cells to further scientific studies and to make profit. Doctors accumulate enormous profit from stolen cells, and the patient does not have any say in who or where the cells go to. Cases such as Henrietta Lacks and John Moore have been brought into the eye of the public in order to show the misuse of cells. Ted Slavin’s case show the benefits of the patient and doctor working together toward a common goal. Doctors should be required to notify and obtain permission to use patient samples for research other than its original purpose, and the patient or their family should have control over who uses the samples to ensure proper usage and benefits of all involved parties.
 Twenty years went by before the Lack’s family discovered that Henrietta Lacks had not truly died, but that her cells continued to live on. …show more content…
Diagnosed with cervical cancer, she was sent to John Hopkins hospital for treatment. Dr. George Otto Gey, a cancer researcher, lacked the resources to keep cancer cells alive long enough to study cancer cells. Henrietta’s doctor, who did not attain the right to use her cells, gave samples to Dr. Gey for research. Dr. Gey soon realized that the cells did not die in vitro, but continued to divide and flourish. After the death of Henrietta Lacks, scientists continued to take tissue samples from the Lacks family to study the similarities between the cells. The Lacks family were under the assumption that it was to test for cancer. The greatest irony in the situation is that the Lacks family cannot afford healthcare. Today, companies who sell He-la cells make billions of dollars, while the Lacks family continues to not receive any compensation or