Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Department of Neuroeconomics and Neuromarketing sounds like a title chiseled on the wall of a corporate division in a dystopian future; the highlight of… Read More »Choosing to Be Irrational: How Neuroscience Incorporated Economics, and Vice Versa
You are on a roll. In the morning, you delivered a compelling business proposal. You were the center of attention at lunch and your colleagues… Read More »Why Winners Keep Winning
Glioblastoma research is similar to superhero film plots. How, you may ask? If each superhero represents a different treatment drug, then we as researchers want… Read More »Advancing Glioblastoma Research: A Tale of Two Superheroes
If you were diagnosed with a disease, there are two questions you would immediately want answered: 1. How can we treat it? 2. What caused… Read More »Developing a Laboratory Model for Inclusion Body Myositis
A patient develops symptoms that cannot be explained. The doctor orders a myriad of tests to discern the cause. If cancer is suspected, the patient… Read More »A New Blood Test Tries to Detect Cancer Sooner
Biology is a vast and rapidly evolving field. The science of life ranges from studying the physical and chemical interactions of molecules to mapping a… Read More »Drowning in Data: New Challenges in Modern Biology
About 40 years ago (July 1978), Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in England, weighing 5 pounds, 12 ounces. This birth may… Read More »Fresh or Frozen Embryos? Equal Live-Birth Rates Among Infertile Women
Do you blog? Journal? Write in your spare time? Are you interested in pursuing communications at any level in parallel with your professional training? We need you!… Read More »Do You Want to Write For Us?
The onset of each new year is frequently marred by overly ambitious and quickly neglected resolutions — an onslaught of new gym memberships, Jenny Craig enrollments,… Read More »Last Year’s Resolutions — A Brief Summary of Some of 2017’s Greatest Scientific Advances and Discoveries
While the word cancer treatment may identify everything from chemotherapy to radiation, there is significant variance between the type of cancer and its responsiveness to… Read More »Using Epigenetics to Fight Tumors