Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Xuan Pham is a human geneticist graduate student who enjoys telling stories about genetics with a creative twist.
In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) among middle and high school students had tripled in… Read More »E-Cigarette Vapors Linked to DNA Damage
“Nobody has to read this crap!” Ed Yong began his talk at a recent American Society of Human Genetics symposium, The Art and Science of Science… Read More »Becoming a Science Storyteller: Tips on Communication
Previously, I outlined the initial stages of my personal preparations for a presentation at American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 conference. This was my… Read More »Four Tips for Preparing for a Conference Presentation
As the American Society of Human Genetics concluded its 65th annual meeting in Baltimore, the air around the Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine… Read More »Highlights from the 2015 American Society of Human Genetics Conference
Attending scientific conferences is one of my favorite things about being a graduate student. I get the opportunity to hear what is hot in the… Read More »Preparing for Conferences: Inside the 2015 ASHG Annual Meeting
The CRISPR/Cas9 wave that’s recently swept through the scientific community is now churning up a storm of controversy in its wake. Due to its relatively… Read More »Recent CRISPR/Cas9 Research Ignites Ethical Concerns
As some of the most impressively gargantuan creatures to ever roam the earth, dinosaurs are a constant source of intrigue and inspiration. In the latest… Read More »The Genetic Reality of a Jurassic World
The famed Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon once traveled to the New World in search of the mythical Fountain of Youth. Hundreds of years… Read More »Progeria Effects in Cells Improved with an Antioxidant Found in Broccoli
Peruse through a few articles from major journals and you’d likely come across a new buzzword: CRISPR/Cas9. Short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated… Read More »Johns Hopkins Tackles Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 Symposium
Go to any laboratory, talk to any scientist, ask any graduate student about a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and just about everyone will… Read More »The CRISPR Craze: 3 Ways Genome Editing Is Changing Gene Therapy