Researchers direct cellular reactions with light
Hopkins researchers have refined a technique for manipulating individual molecules within living cells, allowing them to control where they are moved to at a specific time.
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Hopkins researchers have refined a technique for manipulating individual molecules within living cells, allowing them to control where they are moved to at a specific time.
Why are people willing to pay ridiculous sums of money for products, provided that they are celebrity-related?
A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam have found that oxytocin, which is usually known for its role in causing feelings of love or affection, also has links with human ethnocentrism. While oxytocin fuels favoritism within a group, it is also associated with derogation between groups.
For the first time, scientists have discovered a planet that originated in another galaxy, but currently resides in the Milky Way. The findings, described by astronomers in Heidelberg, Germany in November, describe a planet that is unusual in many ways.
According to new research from the Hopkins School of Medicine, published in the August edition of Surgery, the risk of death for pedestrians increases significantly if they are uninsured and belong to the minority population. Their study has significant implications about disparities in outcomes after treatment for medical conditions in general.
Researchers based at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have been developing a malaria vaccine based on a non-pathogenic and non-vertebrate insect virus, or “baculovirus.” These are promising new alternatives to current malaria multi-stage vaccines.
Researchers at Hopkins who are leading an international team have identified genes that may contribute to autism. Prior to these findings, attempts at linking specific genes with autism have had limited success, even though some studies suggest that the disorder may be inheritable.
Though Hopkins saw a dramatic decrease in crime last year, the number of drug-related offenses doubled in 2008, according to the recent report released by security.
Last Saturday, more than a thousand Hopkins students and staff members gathered to participate in the President's Day of Service, according to several of its coordinators. They assembled in the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center at around 1:00 p.m.