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(04/19/18 4:00pm)
On Saturday, April 7, MedHacks hosted its first Mini-MedHacks event, involving 30 high school seniors from schools around Baltimore. MedHacks hosts an annual medical hackathon at Hopkins, and Mini-MedHacks 2018 was intended to provide younger students with a similar experience.
(04/12/18 4:00pm)
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) indicates that nicotinamide riboside (NR), a dietary supplement, may provide the same health benefits as restricting calories. The findings were reported in a paper published on March 29 in Nature Communications.
(04/05/18 4:00pm)
In 1928, the first patient to use the iron lung was an eight-year-old girl, suffering from respiratory paralysis as a result of poliomyelitis, or polio. Though she later died from cardiac failure, the device, an artificial respirator, had kept her breathing — and alive — for over five days.
(04/05/18 4:00pm)
In 2003, a skeleton was discovered in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This skeleton, which has since been named “Ata” was tiny, about six inches long, with strange and dramatic deformities: a long skull pointed at the top, deep angular eye sockets and fewer ribs than normal. Some observers thought it looked alien.
(03/15/18 4:00pm)
A recent genome analysis of almost 3,000 individuals has provided more evidence that supports the theory that the mutation which causes sickle cell anemia may have originated from a single person, nearly seven millenia ago.
(03/08/18 5:00pm)
(02/15/18 5:00pm)
In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers found that the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) may be up to five times as great as previously estimated.
(02/08/18 4:49pm)
In this feature, we explore how space science research has been and still is associated with both absurdity and great power competition. We delve into the roots of rocketry in war, the space race between the U.S. and the USSR, and what some consider to be the beginnings of a second space race between the U.S. and China. Through this piece, we hope to shed light on the nature of international competition and cooperation in space.
(02/08/18 5:00pm)
On Jan. 24 earlier this year, a paper published in the journal Cell described the successful cloning of two macaque monkeys at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai.
(11/30/17 8:20pm)
One such danger was a fatal disease that would come to be known as scrapie. It caused behavioral changes in the animals it affected, including tremors, loss of coordination and a compulsive tendency to rub against objects as though dealing with an itch, hence the name.
(11/09/17 5:29pm)
Known to the public only by his first name during his life (in order to protect the Vetters’ privacy), David captured the nation’s attention. He was periodically covered by the media, and his plight even made its way into pop culture.
(11/02/17 3:23pm)
Between 2014 and 2016, an epidemic of Ebola swept across West Africa, infecting over 28,600 people and leaving over 10,000 dead. In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the epidemic was primarily located, the disease left behind around 17,000 survivors. Many of them are now dealing with an unexpected complication: cataracts.
(10/26/17 8:36pm)
This illness, however, began to spread beyond Water Street. It was finally identified on Aug. 19 when Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the most prominent American physicians of the time, announced that the cases were of yellow fever.
(10/19/17 7:33pm)
Some of them did it for science, others out of curiosity. Some had altruistic motives, others just had plans for the $4,000 they would be receiving after the study.
(10/12/17 1:52pm)
Within hours of the briefing, media articles about Frieden’s remarks and the landmark CDC report that assessed the state of antibiotic resistance in the U.S. began circulating. Frieden’s warning of a “post-antibiotic era,” proved to be a succinct, provocative way to summarize the possibility of a world in which bacterial infections can no longer be effectively combated.
(10/12/17 1:48pm)
There are few unwanted houseguests worse than the bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
(09/28/17 1:37pm)
From an evolutionary standpoint, aging makes no sense. Why deteriorate over time, when you could simply reproduce forever? How does it benefit us to grow older?