Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Troubling tales of race, poverty and violence seem to span the contours of today’s media. However, University of Pennsylvania criminologist Sara Heller’s research1, published last… Read More »To Reduce Youth Violence, Prescribe a Summer Job
Since their discovery in the early 1990s and 2000s, microRNAs have been implicated in a variety of human conditions. Most recently, however, microRNAs are being… Read More »Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer via MicroRNAs
Imagine you are a pediatrician working in an emergency department when a young female patient who was recently diagnosed as bipolar is brought in by… Read More »Pediatric Mental Illness Crisis: Barriers to Pediatric Mental Health Services in Our Current EMS System
On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a magnitude-8 earthquake hit Sichuan province, a mountainous region in western China. Official figures stated that 69,197 were… Read More »With Disaster Comes Hope
What do faulty brakes on a car and cancer cells have in common? For one, cancer cells have found ways to evade checkpoints that the… Read More »Cancer Immunotherapy: The Next Breakthrough Gains Footing
Imagine a new restaurant just opened downtown and you want to check it out. You hop on the bus and take it a few stops.… Read More »How the Brain Navigates to a New Restaurant
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,… Read More »Lessons from the Dr. Oz Senate Appearance
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… Read More »Scientists Discover Widespread Age-Associated ‘Fingerprints’ in the Human Brain
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… Read More »New Mechanism of Protein Synthesis Linked to Alzheimer’s
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… Read More »More Colds in the Cold?