Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine – The Denver Post

By LEA SKENE and SARAH BRUMFIELD (Associated Press) 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 that they accused of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system. Tissue taken from […]

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Neighbour who harassed pensioner is handed restraining order

Neighbour who harassed pensioner watering plant pots between their driveways after she became furious about splashes hitting her garden path is handed restraining order  One of Kim Porter-Wilson’s neighbours said she should be ‘kicked off the street’ A woman who launched a nine month campaign of harassment on her neighbour for watering her own plants has been handed a restraining […]

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Flat is destroyed by fire after e-bike battery overheated

Flat is destroyed by fire after e-bike battery overheated as it was being charged Firefighters were called to the residential blaze in Elswick, Newcastle on July 11 A flat has been decimated by a fire caused by an e-bike battery that overheated when it was on charge. Firefighters were called to a residential blaze in Elswick, Newcastle, on July 11 […]

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