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(05/05/11 8:36pm)
Learning and memory formation are complex processes requiring a delicate balance of organization, creation and destruction of synapses, or connections between neurons, and one team of researchers at Hopkins has discovered a new mechanism through which these processes are controlled.
(04/28/11 6:45pm)
Despite even the most striking similarities, we humans persist in thinking that we’re special and different from other animals. However, new evidence presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists is further narrowing the gap between us humans and our primate relatives.
(04/21/11 5:49pm)
No pain no . . . smell?
(04/14/11 7:51pm)
Researchers at Cytokinetics, Inc., Hopkins, CV Dynamics, Inc., the New Jersey Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania think they may have discovered the future of cardiac care for heart failure.
(04/07/11 8:49pm)
A team of Hopkins researchers is striving to change the course of schizophrenia research by giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to observe DISC1-defective cells directly from patients.
(03/31/11 4:07pm)
In a recent edition of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco published experimental findings which suggest that the use of nanodiamonds can be used as a novel and more effective drug delivery system for chemotherapeutic agents.
(03/17/11 5:41pm)
Peripheral neuropathy, a group of over 100 debilitating disorders that affect millions of people in the United States, may be triggered by the degeneration of mitochondria in neuronal axons far away from the brain.
(03/11/11 4:22am)
me and usually considered less than cool, motorcycle helmets save lives. It’s a fact. Not only do they decrease the rates of death from motorcycle accidents by 65 percent, but they also are known to decrease the prevalence and severity of head and brain injuries.
(03/11/11 4:21am)
Causes of well-known racial disparities in health are often hard to tease out, but researchers of the Hopkins Medical Institutions are trying anyhow. One team, led by Hsin-Chieh Yeh, has undertaken a study to determine unknown causes of racial disparities between diabetes prevalence in white and African American populations.
(03/11/11 4:18am)
With the public debate over the health effects of cell phones raging on, scientists and doctors are always on the search for evidence of possible health hazards of talking on the phone.
(03/04/11 12:16am)
It’s a current! It’s a magnet! It’s . . . magnetricity? Is there even such a thing?
(02/25/11 2:37am)
Much like a computer compresses pixels into JPEG files, the brain compresses the vast amount of visual information that it must process and store.
(02/18/11 1:56am)
A new Hopkins study has shed light on how the brain shifts its attention between the external information that constantly comes in through the senses and internal information related to the individual’s long- or short-term goals, and how it processes all this information into memory.
(02/10/11 5:51pm)
Although many years and many careers have been invested in discovering the origins of the universe, its early history remains a mystery. However, a recent finding, published in Nature, may shed new light on the early evolution of the universe.
(02/03/11 6:39pm)
A variation in the gene that codes for a critical neural survival factor, previously believed to be detrimental to cognitive health and abilities, may actually benefit its carriers (even heterozygotes) after traumatic brain injury.
(12/03/10 12:45am)
Although an astounding one in 4,000 people in the US suffer from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive disorder affecting the retina, there is neither a cure nor effective treatment options.
(11/19/10 1:29am)
Although itchiness is a universally annoying sensation, it has yet to be completely figured out. For example, the exact molecular components of the itch pathway are still fuzzy, as is the connection between pain and itch.
(11/11/10 11:27pm)
Though scientists can grow tissues in vitro quite easily now, the growth and development of specific types of neurons remains elusive, mainly due to the extreme specificity and delicacy involved in the differentiation of neurons in vivo. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to recreate these conditions in vitro.
(11/04/10 10:11pm)
When things go wrong inside a cell, the cell must respond quickly and efficiently to address the issue. Sometimes that involves quietly killing off the troublesome cell, but sometimes such a drastic step is not needed, or can even be prevented.
(10/14/10 7:05pm)
New findings published this month in the journal Nature Genetics have helped shed some light on the molecular mechanisms of a certain type of skin cancer, called basal cell carcinoma (BCC). The findings, reported in a letter to the journal by a team of scientists from Hopkins and the Michigan School of Medicine implicate a protein known as keratin 17 in the development of BCC and similar skin cancers. Specifically, the protein seems to be involved in mediating an immune response which would appear to aggravate tumor formation.