Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
We’re getting old. Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and technology over the last century have increased the average human lifespan in the United States by… Read More »Genetic Double-Agents Are Making You Old
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
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
One in 292.2 million — those were the odds of winning the recent $1.5 billion Powerball, the largest lottery jackpot ever. As it happens, a… Read More »The Life Lottery
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
I remember the day I first met Carolina Montano, a fellow student in the Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D. program. It was toward the beginning of my… Read More »Carolina Montano: From Political Asylum to Johns Hopkins M.D./Ph.D.