The family learned for the first time that Henrietta's cells were alive and being sent around the world, twenty-two years after Henrietta's death. After discovering that Henrietta's cells were in circulation, the family began to blame John Hopkins for taking Henrietta's cells without permission and commercializing the cells to create a multimillion-dollar industry, while her family lived in poverty without insurance healthcare. John Hopkins Hospital has released various statements stating that the hospital never received funding for the HeLa cells and that Gey donated all of his HeLa cell samples to other researchers. Therefore, the only beneficiaries of HeLa cell profits are biotech companies, which sell vials of HeLa cells for a price of up to ten thousand