Center for Epigenetics director speaks about basis of cancer
Last Monday, Andrew Feinberg, director of the Center for Epigenetics and chief of the Division of Molecular Medicine, spoke on the epigenetic basis of common human diseases.
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Last Monday, Andrew Feinberg, director of the Center for Epigenetics and chief of the Division of Molecular Medicine, spoke on the epigenetic basis of common human diseases.
This Tuesday, I rolled out of bed at 8:50 a.m. for a 9 a.m. class, forgot to look out the window, and found myself on the sidewalk in front of my apartment in the pouring rain, knowing that I was going to look like I had swum to Schaffer Hall. I thought about sprinting across the quad, but had nowhere near enough sleep or breakfast to seriously consider the option. Would running have kept me drier in the rain? A surprising amount of scientific debate exists on this topic.
A research team at Syracuse University has used shape memory polymers to create a dynamic, shape-changing substrate on which cells can be grown.
Last Friday’s tsunami on the eastern coast of Japan, with waves that reached heights of more than 10 feet, was generated due to a seismic event whose epicenter lay approximately 60 miles to the east of the country.
Ever since Darwin proposed his theories in On the Origin of Species, scientists have been able to observe and explain many biological phenomena in which certain mutations start off as a rare occurrence in a population and then balloon into a widely possessed trait. But a widely accepted theory that explains this on a molecular level may have been disproven in a recent study by geneticists at the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford.
Hilary Bok, Associate Professor of Bioethics, and Luce Professor in Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory, kicked off the Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society’s spring lecture series this Wednesday.
Why aren’t we taller? I usually ask myself this question several times a week, whether I’m hopping on my kitchen counters to get the salt, carting a stepstool around lab to reach the buffers on the top shelves, or when people standing next to me rest their elbows on my shoulders.
As part of the Brain Science Institute’s (BSI) Brain Night speaker series, David Linden of the Department of Neuroscience spoke about “Love, Sex and Brain Evolution” to a packed audience in the Bloomberg auditorium last Wednesday.
Emergency departments nationwide may be overusing CT and MRI scans, a new study by Hopkins doctors has found.
Scientists working at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago and The University of Chicago have developed an effective method to target and kill cancer cells using tiny magnetic discs.
Researchers working at the Hopkins School of Medicine have developed a novel treatment for a common, often fatal, condition that strikes down patients days after an aneurysm.
The MESSENGER probe's third and final flyby of Mercury was completed Tuesday Sept. 29. Although the spacecraft was on schedule and completed the main goals of the flyby, an unexpected instrument glitch prevented some data from being collected.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Charles K. Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith.
A research team led by doctors from the Viral Hepatitis Group of Hopkins Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases has discovered that a genetic difference in a single nucleotide may be the reason some people spontaneously recover from hepatitis C.
Everyone is pretty familiar with adrenaline and the fight-or-flight response. It's that rush you get when the roller coaster drops for the first time, and what helps you scribble down that last proof on the midterm with two minutes to spare.
A new type of anti-cancer drug, one that interferes with cancer cells on a molecular level, has shown promising results for patients with advanced stages of skin and brain cancer.
Scientists at the School of Medicine have developed a new method to track how efficiently vaccines are delivered to the body. Previously it was often unclear how a vaccine injection worked in the body and whether it was doing what it was intended to do.
Researchers at the Hopkins School of Medicine have shed new light on a pathway of protein activity that allows a specific strain of yeast cells to survive far longer than usual under starvation conditions. The findings could have implications for studies on human aging.
You might imagine that most of the cells in your body remain in one place for their entire lives, keeping you from resembling a giant mound of silly putty. However, controlled cell movement plays a key role in many necessary biological processes.
A research team led by Andre Levchenko of the Whiting School of Engineering has shed light on a previously poorly understood method of cell-cell communication called intercellular transfer of cellular components (ICT).