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Lessons from the Dr. Oz Senate Appearance

Posted by Arielle Medford | Perspectives in Research

As 2014 ended, Medscape released “The Year in Medicine 2014: News That Made a Difference.” Among the notable stories were the Dr. Oz Senate hearings, in which the celebrity doctor was censured for “perpetuating weight loss fraud.” He defended himself, saying he believed in his products, though still admitting the products’ claims were not backed […]

Feb 25, 2015

Scientists Discover Widespread Age-Associated ‘Fingerprints’ in the Human Brain

Posted by Alisa Mo | Perspectives in Research

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Lieber Institute and Johns Hopkins has discovered more than 50,000 regions of the genome that show different levels of activity in the brain across six stages of human development. Their report1, published online on Dec. 15 in Nature Neuroscience, highlights the complexity of genes associated with brain growth […]

Feb 25, 2015

New Mechanism of Protein Synthesis Linked to Alzheimer’s

Posted by Shannen Cravens | Perspectives in Research

Anyone who has taken a biology or biochemistry class is familiar with the central dogma of the biological sciences, which describes the flow of genetic information. It dates back to Francis Crick in 1956 and can be simplified to the following concept: DNA encodes for RNA, and RNA encodes for proteins. A new study1 from […]

Feb 25, 2015

More Colds in the Cold?

Posted by Bree Yanagisawa | Perspectives in Research

While we’ve all heard the tired warning to wear our coats outside so we don’t get sick, it’s fair to wonder how much validity there is to such reasoning. Are we really more likely to catch a cold in colder weather? Lucky for us, scientists at Yale are looking into it. Their recent article1, published […]

Feb 25, 2015

‘2014 Breakthrough of the Year’ Named by Science Magazine

Posted by Kirstie Keller | Perspectives in Research

In a year where scientists have turned back the clock on aging and designed robots to think as a group, choosing a standout success is a charge that is near impossible. However, when Science magazine released its annual short list of the most outstanding contributions to the scientific field, it ultimately made the difficult decision […]

Feb 20, 2015

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