Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Peruse through a few articles from major journals and you’d likely come across a new buzzword: CRISPR/Cas9. Short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated… Read More »Johns Hopkins Tackles Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 Symposium
Imagine halls filled with chatter about obscure proteins that could one day be used to identify cancers, idiosyncratic assays to measure single RNA molecules in… Read More »Postdoc Retreat Features Johns Hopkins Research, Professional Development
“Every blossom exhibits an exquisite disorder of ragged petals finer than lace. But one needs a lens to judge of their beauty: it lies hidden… Read More »What I Learned: Thoughts from a Graduating Ph.D. Student
How do musicians know how to move their arms and fingers — and in some cases, feet — to create beautiful chords and harmonics? How… Read More »Multiple Mechanisms Underlie Human Motor Learning
The academic motto of “publish or perish” can create an isolationist graduate school environment. It can be easy to convince ourselves that our impact is… Read More »Pharmacology Student Initiative: Building a Better Graduate Community
Approximately 50 percent of patients with heart failure die within five years of diagnosis due to lack of an effective cure. Scientists are working to… Read More »A Promising Therapeutic Target for Heart Failure
Marc Edwards, Ph.D., has a vision for an innovative kind of lecture series at Johns Hopkins. The postdoctoral research fellow is interested in featuring prominent… Read More »Levi Watkins Lecture Series to Feature Prominent Minorities in Science
“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor,” said Rudolf Virchow, a German physician-anthropologist, in 1848. It was this framework for public health that… Read More »Advocacy Through Occupational Therapy
Recently on Facebook, I saw a post from my friend about her sadness in reaction to two of her friends committing suicide. The situation was… Read More »Suicide: A Disturbing but Preventable Problem
Go to any laboratory, talk to any scientist, ask any graduate student about a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and just about everyone will… Read More »The CRISPR Craze: 3 Ways Genome Editing Is Changing Gene Therapy