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In Class with Carr

S E341: Shontavia Johnson: The HELA Patent

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

Africana Studies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Karen Hunter, Empowerment, Greg Carr

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

More the 17,000 patents created from the body of a black woman. Understanding the patent process and Henrietta Lacks.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. All right, welcome family.

0:14.6

Let me say first of all, thank you for joining me.

0:16.8

Today we're going to be having a very interesting conversation

0:20.6

with entrepreneur and intellectual property attorney,

0:25.0

Chantavia Johnson.

0:27.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:29.0

And oh, wait, before we get into this,

0:31.0

subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, hit the like button because you're going to like this. I promise.

0:35.8

All right. Hey!

0:36.8

Hey, Karen, yes, subscribe, hit the like button. Share it with all your people, right?

0:43.0

All right, we've talked before in the show,

0:47.0

and what I really, the reason why I invite you here today is because I'm,

0:50.0

you know, the intellectual property patents and things I just had a young lady on the show who's a geneticist and we were talking about the heligine and how they're making vaccines right now,

1:02.8

she believes using those very genes,

1:05.4

using those cells because they are easily manipulated,

1:09.8

they can be duplicated, they don't die,

1:12.4

and she said there's billions of dollars

1:15.5

being invested in making the vaccine

1:18.1

using those genes.

1:19.0

And I said, you told me actually,

1:21.5

there are thousands of patents around Henrietta Lax in herself.

1:27.0

There definitely are and the only thing I disagree with is I don't think there are billions of dollars. I think there are billions of dollars. I literally do revolving around technology based on

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