Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
David Wilson is a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student who is passionate about global health and environmental sustainability, among other science-related topics.
The technology behind genome sequencing and the science of genomics has advanced incredibly quickly over the past decade. However, in the process, it has come… Read More »Diving into Epigenetics Aboard NASA’s parabolic arc aircraft
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued new rules on overtime wages, raising the yearly salary limit for which overtime pay must be provided to… Read More »Updated Department of Labor Rules Will Impact Postdoctoral Researcher Salaries This December
Kaitlyn Sadtler, a freshly minted Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins’ Cell and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program and Jennifer Elisseeff, Ph.D., recently had her thesis work published… Read More »Success Follows When Biomedical Engineering and Immunology Collaborate
You may expect that defining something as living or dead would be relatively straightforward, yet nearly every scientist you ask for a definition of what… Read More »Scientifically Defining Life
Cooking meat provided a huge evolutionary benefit on the plains of Africa for Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, allowing humans to become the dominant… Read More »Red Meat: The Evolutionary Benefit and the Modern Dilemma