Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
On May 3, I and four other Johns Hopkins students volunteered with the Personalized Genetics Education Project, or pgEd, at a congressional briefing titled “Enduring… Read More »How Genetics Can Inform Future Missions to Mars
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
When I started medical school in 2009, one of my responsibilities was to write progress notes and help write out the details of patients’ conditions… Read More »Was ‘Meaningful Use’ Meaningless?
During his time at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Liwei Jiang, a graduating fourth year, found himself interacting with classmates and faculty members… Read More »Social Strategies for Innovations in Radiology Education
In 2012, Jan Scheuermann made headlines when she took a bite of chocolate. While that sounds like a simple feat, in her case, it was… Read More »Building Brain-Machine Interfaces That Are Here to Stay
Shirley Tilghman, professor of molecular biology and former Princeton University president, delivered the 16th annual Daniel Nathans Lecture in Molecular Genetics about a dilemma unfolding… Read More »The Malthusian Dilemma: Biomedical Research in the Post-NIH Budget Doubling Era
Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an opioid overdose in the United States. Yet the number of opioids prescribed annually is so high that each… Read More »Curbing the Tide of the Opioid Epidemic
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
One in 292.2 million — those were the odds of winning the recent $1.5 billion Powerball, the largest lottery jackpot ever. As it happens, a… Read More »The Life Lottery
Multiple sclerosis afflicts millions but defies most clinical treatments. For reasons we do not clearly understand, the immune system of an individual with MS attacks… Read More »Blocking Signals Between Brain Cells May Boost Brain Repair in MS