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(09/21/11 5:00am)
Changes in people's behavior and mentality in social situations may be due to hardwired properties of the brain, as recent research suggests. Nadege Bault of California Institute of Technology measured brain activity of participants in various social and isolated conditions to quantify the results.
(09/14/11 5:00am)
Recent research led by Yavuz Selvi of Yuzuncu Yil University in Turkey suggests a possible correlation between staying up late and an increased frequency of nightmares. However, more evidence is needed to support this conclusion.
(09/07/11 5:00am)
A recent study conducted by Daniel J. Safer of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Hopkins School of Medicine explored the differences in adverse effects of psychotropic medications in children, adolescents and adults. Results showed that children experienced greater side effects to these treatments in comparison to older individuals.
(05/05/11 8:46pm)
The complete genome of melanoma was recently sequenced by a research team at the National Institutes of Health, resulting in new identifications of cancer-related mutations and serving as a huge step forward towards cancer detection and subsequent treatment.
(03/31/11 7:22pm)
An earthquake measuring 9.0 on the moment magnitude scale, coupled with a 30-foot tsunami, on March 11 caused drastic damage to six nuclear reactors on the coast of Fukushima Japan, resulting in widespread nuclear contamination and the possible threat of nuclear explosion.
(03/11/11 4:19am)
Loggerhead sea turtles are capable of navigating using both latitudinal and longitudinal magnetic cues as demonstrated in a recent study published in the journal Current Biology. The project was led by Nathan F. Putman of the University of North Carolina.
(03/04/11 12:22am)
Unfixed postmortem human fetal brains show early neuronal activity and characteristics of mature cortical behavior, as shown in a study conducted by a research team from the University of Connecticut Health Center.
(02/10/11 5:54pm)
Hippocampal activity during waking hours plays a key role in new memory consolidation and retrieval, as shown by a research team led by Margaret Carr and Shantanu Jadhav at the University of California, San Francisco.
(02/03/11 6:36pm)
Researchers at Hopkins Medical School have found that targeting multiple developmental neural pathways with several drugs simultaneously is more effective at controlling the growth of malignant brain tumors than targeting each pathway individually. The research, conducted by Charles Eberhart and his colleagues, was published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
(11/19/10 1:31am)
The eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia has left thousands homeless as the government struggles to respond to the disaster. Beginning on October 26, 2010, the Mount Merapi eruption has lasted more than 120 hours, beating a previous record made in 1872. The death toll has reached 194 people and is still climbing.
(11/11/10 11:28pm)
Recent collaborative genetic study by a team of researchers from Germany, Ireland, China, France, England and the United States confirm that numerous European plagues, including the Black Death of the 14th Century, had a common origin in China.
(11/04/10 10:16pm)
An investigation on the national prevalence of food allergies led by Robert Wood, chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at Hopkins, and colleagues indicates that black children with asthma are at highest risk for developing food allergies.
(10/14/10 7:07pm)
A study on the relationship between economic status and AIDS mortality in Tanzania recently conducted by a Hopkins research team suggests no correlation between wealth and prime-age deaths in regions with high AIDS-infected populations. The study was led by Marjorie Opuni-Akuamoa, an assistant scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
(10/01/10 2:27am)
Stephen Baylin, a professor of oncology at the Hopkins School of Medicine, along with his research team, recently published a paper on cancer-related epigenetic abnormalities in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) reprogramming. This research helps to explain why some iPS populations do not differentiate like native stem cells.
(09/23/10 11:11pm)
A Hopkins research team led by Samer Hattar, of the Department of Biology, recently conducted a study on the specific contributions of rods, light-sensitive cells found in the retina, to the signaling pathway for circadian photoentrainment, the process by which our bodies synchronize to the solar day.
(09/17/10 2:05am)
Recent studies suggest that although children infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are still prone to vaccine-preventable illnesses, revaccination greatly reduces vulnerability and subsequently mortality rate.
(02/25/10 5:00am)
Feng Li of Hopkins' McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, along with researchers at other universities, recently completed a genetic study of the correlation between Intellectual Disability and submicroscopial duplication of Xp22.31 of the X-chromosome.
(01/27/10 5:00am)
Hopkins researchers, working with a team from South Korea, have created a chip that works as a matrix on which cardiac tissue can be grown. Heart cells grown on the chip, which mimics the extracellular matrix (ECM), look more like actual cardiac tissue found in the body than do cells grown on ordinary petri dishes.
(12/02/09 5:00am)
A Hopkins research team led by Erin Michos recently found conclusive evidence indicating the strong relationship between vitamin D deficiency, low estrogen level and increased risk of cardiovascular and bone diseases in males.
(11/12/09 5:00am)
Despite popular belief that saturated fats must be avoided at all times, recent research led by Richard Huganir of the Department of Neuroscience at Hopkins shows that palmitate, a fatty acid that is present in the brain, plays a significant role in memory retention.