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The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cervical cancer cells obtained during a tumor biopsy at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s were used in revolutionary medical research without her ...

I was optimistic when David Bramble said in 2022 that, according to The Baltimore Sun, he wanted an Inner Harbor redevelopment to be “local” and “authentic.” Further, he said he wanted it “to ...

Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific and the living relatives of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement Monday in the family's lawsuit seeking compensation for the use of a cell line that was ...

Residents of the 1300 Lafayette high-rise (background) want to use steam heat that would impact the Historic Lafayette Park townhouses (right). Credit: Steve Neavling Detroit Thermal must wait at ...