Johns Hopkins University and the family of Henrietta Lacks say a new building on the school's campus in East Baltimore will be named after the woman whose cells were taken without her consent and widely used in revolutionary research.

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DUNDALK — Baltimore County is honoring Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells continue to have an impact on medicine more than 60 years after they were taken while she was under anesthesia. The county held a ceremony Saturday at ...

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The son of Henrietta Lacks is seeking compensation for the unauthorized use of his mother’s cells in scientific research since her 1951 death, as detailed in a best-selling book. The Baltimore Sun reports that Lawrence Lacks, his son and daughter-in-law ...

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