Harvard to pay $53m to families after mortuary manager sold body parts

Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to settle with families of people whose bodies were donated to the institution for scientific research. The university's mortuary manager had been stealing organs and selling them on the black market. The scandal revealed serious oversight failures in the body donation programme at one of the world's most prestigious universities.

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