This week, the US government relaunched a program providing free COVID-19 tests and invested $600m in domestic test manufacturing; the European Commission revealed an antitrust investigation of Edwards LifeSciences; and a consulting firm report said the medtech industry should make big changes to address investor skepticism.

Plus deals involving SK Biopharmaceuticals, Hikma and Proteovant, Day One/Sprint, Eyenovia/Formosa, Clinigen/CNX, Ikena/Pionyr and more.

While the unjust enrichment claim against Ultragenyx uses the same argument the estate of Henrietta Lacks employed against Thermo Fisher, resulting in a settlement earlier this month, one big difference between the cases is that Ultragenyx does not yet have a commercial product that relies on the HeLa cells.

After settling for an undisclosed sum with Thermo Fisher, the estate of Henrietta Lacks signals it will initiate further lawsuits against defendants alleged to have unjustly profited from the use of HeLa cells.