Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Early this year, news broke that the first xenotransplant of a genetically engineered pig heart into a human had been successfully performed at the University… Read More »Xenotransplantation: The Present Future
The doctoral qualifying exam is probably the most stressful part of earning a Ph.D. In addition to the candidate being scrutinized by a panel of… Read More »Rethinking the Doctoral Qualifying Exam
Health care is expensive in the U.S., but why? Medical student Dianela Perdomo discusses how inflation and other factors influence rising costs.
How much is the life of one child really worth? That is part of the question bioethicists and policymakers must consider when discussing influenza’s recent… Read More »The Cost of Preventing Pediatric Influenza Deaths
What will be the next advance in immunology? Speculations on reading and writing the immune system from neuroscience Ph.D. candidate JJ Kim.
Ph.D. student Emma Spikol examines the role of biomedical research in the worrisome plastic waste problem and considers innovative solutions.
For Pride month, we're highlighting past blog posts that discuss the LGBTQ experience in academia and medicine. Queer Visibility in Medical Education “Emerge”ing Insights into… Read More »Celebrating Pride Month 2021
Ph.D. candidate Emma Spikol sheds light on the broken narratives of scientific breakthroughs.
Johns Hopkins researchers found that the heel bone looks different in gorillas who walk on land compared with those who live in the trees, establishing a new avenue in evolutionary and behavioral research.
After decades of breeding, domesticated dogs represent the most phenotypically diverse species of mammal on Earth. Given this, the question of whether dogs can recognize each other based on sight alone was a complete unknown.