Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The giraffe might be one of the most unusual-looking animals on Earth because of its long neck. As the tallest land-dwelling mammal, the giraffe boasts… Read More »Why Does the Giraffe Have a Long Neck: Answers from the Giraffe Genome
In an ideal world, reproducibility is a cornerstone of scientific research. The scientific method should provide conclusions that are as close to the truth as… Read More »Solving the Scientific Reproducibility Crisis
A recent study by researchers from Harvard, MD Anderson and Weill Cornell, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed an association between a common… Read More »Prostate Cancer Therapy Linked to Depression
Many years ago when hunting and gathering was the means to survival, the ability to shore up vast amounts of caloric intake as body fat… Read More »The Biggest Loser and the Skinny on Obesity
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued new rules on overtime wages, raising the yearly salary limit for which overtime pay must be provided to… Read More »Updated Department of Labor Rules Will Impact Postdoctoral Researcher Salaries This December
The following submission is the first place winner of The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation 2016 essay contest. You can read the original posting here. … Read More »Modern Neuroscience has the tools to treat psychiatric illness
As medical students across America graduated this past May, receiving the prized M.D. they worked so hard to obtain, many have their minds squarely focused… Read More »Colombian Medical Graduates Learn Through Service
Lithium is a first-line treatment for patients with bipolar disorder, which is characterized by mood swings between mania and depression. Although widespread use of lithium… Read More »How Lithium Treats Bipolar Disorder
With the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine class of 2016 recently graduated and getting ready to enter the workforce as newly minted interns —… Read More »Expanding Their Education: Why Johns Hopkins Students Take Gap Years
After success in Swedish trials, the first uterine transplant was performed at Cleveland Clinic in the United States this past February. The research in Sweden… Read More »The Wish for a Womb: How Uterus Transplants Can Make Pregnancy Possible