Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Australia is home to some of the deadliest creatures on the planet, including venomous snakes, poisonous spiders and hungry sharks. The Tasmanian devil may not… Read More »Tasmanian Devils Evolve to Combat Contagious Cancer
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
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
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
The Iditarod is the Last Great Race on Earth, or so the slogan says. The 1,000-mile trek from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, occurs in March… Read More »Sled Dogs Pull Their Weight in Rare Disease Genetics
As the American Society of Human Genetics concluded its 65th annual meeting in Baltimore, the air around the Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine… Read More »Highlights from the 2015 American Society of Human Genetics Conference
As some of the most impressively gargantuan creatures to ever roam the earth, dinosaurs are a constant source of intrigue and inspiration. In the latest… Read More »The Genetic Reality of a Jurassic World