Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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
When I was 4 years old, my first piano teacher came to my house. Our piano was small and wooden and stood flush against the… Read More »The Unconscious Mozart
Humans and animals share the most basic drives in life: the need for food and water, and the urge to procreate. Yet only humans have… Read More »Sleep: Our Panacea
As you read this sentence you probably hear the words articulated in your mind. You likely hear that same voice as you decide what to… Read More »The Voices in Our Head – How Can We Tell They’re Ours?