Family Of Henrietta Lacks Settles With Biotech Company Accused Of Profiting From Her Cells
BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in 2021, accusing its leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system. Tissue taken […]
What Killed the First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic in the U.S.?
When the Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital closed in 1979, there were still about 20 university-based clinics in the U.S. that provided gender-affirming surgery. By the mid-1990s, only two or three remained. Despite the hospital attributing the closure of GIC to a 1979 study suggesting unsatisfactory long-term outcomes among 50 applicants […]
Brief presence of water in Arabia Terra on Mars: Team studied thermal inertia to understand how rock layers were formed
As part of a team of collaborators from Northern Arizona University and Johns Hopkins University, NAU PhD candidate Ari Koeppel recently discovered that water was once present in a region of Mars called Arabia Terra. Arabia Terra is in the northern latitudes of Mars. Named in 1879 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, this ancient land […]
A ‘cousin’ of Viagra reduces obesity by stimulating cells to burn fat
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease reduces obesity and fatty liver in mice and improves their heart function — without changes in food intake or daily activity. These findings, published online Oct. 7 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, reveal […]