Science and medicine

As Italy struggles with too many blue crabs in its waters, we can’t help but ask: Can we have them?

Lawyers who represent Lacks’ descendants said any company using her cells, known as HeLa cells, for research or product development without consulting or compensating the family might be the next target they “see in court.”

Londyn Smith de Richelieu, the director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs in Baltimore, has filed a complaint alleging that she was discriminated against by the office of one of the city’s top gender reassignment surgeons.

Lacks’ family and Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed to keep terms of the settlement confidential. Her family celebrated the deal with cake on what would have been Lacks’ 103rd birthday.

Lawsuits alleging profits have been made from stolen, regenerative biological material aren’t common. But if the strategy works, this could become the first in a series of complaints seeking compensation for and control of Lacks’ cells.

A new image from the telescope shows two stars forming nearby us — and by each other.

In a charming surprise, a group of students participating in a summer leadership course with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found a young sea turtle in the bay in Dorchester County.

Tonya Webb, an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, gravitated to cancer research after several family members battled the disease. Now she inspires future cancer fighters.

As the nation marks Disability Pride Month, Gregory Miller, president and chief executive officer of Penn-Mar Human Services, talks about his work on behalf of people with disabilities.

A proposed federal ban on menthol cigarettes has raised concerns among some law enforcement officials and civil rights advocates that it could lead to problematic police encounters, particularly with Black smokers, says Diane Goldstein, a retired police lieutenant who is executive director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership.

American women and girls will be able to buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.

Officials announced this week that the recovery of the fossil and others nearby elevate the park’s classification to a bone bed, the first discovered in Maryland since 1887.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been operational for a year, transforming the way scientists understand the universe. It is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

The northern lights will not be visible in Maryland this week. Sorry if we got your hopes up.

The pandemic and the national racial reckoning led to a surge in patients and clients for Black therapists. Some of those therapists are still processing the experiences themselves.

Scientists say seagrass acreage is expanding and the bay's toxic "dead zone" could shrink by as much as a third this year.

As Maryland joins 22 other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational adult use of the drug, state leaders also considered the debate about what to call a drug that has carried a racist stigma.

A liver transplant saved the life of Morris Murray. Now he wants others living with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis to know that they, too, can receive and donate organs.

Age-related macular degeneration is incurable, but Marylanders are getting better treatment for it now, physicians say.

Marylanders were among those who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Saturday for rallies on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe. v. Wade, which had protected a woman's right to an abortion for a half-century.