Addiction (back to top)
Aging (back to top)
- Hopkins Scientists Turn on Fountain of Youth in Yeast
- Starve a yeast, sweeten its lifespan
- A tiny molecule that might help extend lifespan
- Cancer drug might also treat progeria
- A link between diet and aging?
- Our genome changes as we age
- A Comeback for the Ages: Lamin's connection with aging has reinvigorated research
Cancer: Potential treatments (back to top)
- New Study Helps Predict Which Lung Cancer Drugs are Most Likely to Work
- Just Add Water and...Treat Brain Cancer
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Expose Cancer Cells' Universal 'Dark Matter'
- Solving A Traditional Chinese Medicine Mystery
- Antibiotic Slows Growth of Bladder, Breast Cancer Cells
- New Therapeutic Target for Some Breast Cancers
- More of a reason to eat those vegetables
- A caution about chemicals that alter the epigenome
- Killing cancer cells with a sea sponge?
- Cancer drug might also treat progeria
- Discovery of anticancer proteins
- Preventing sun damage with broccoli sprout extract
- Epigenetics and cancer: blocking the spread
- Stopping cancer by blocking telomerase
- Cancer and toenail fungus?
- 1930s Drug Slows Tumor Growth
Cancer: Learning more about the disease (back to top)
- Rearranging the Cell's Skeleton
- Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover How Some Breast Cancers Alter Their Sensitivity To Estrogen
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Tie Cell Cycle “Clock” To Childhood Cancers
- The Biological Art of Organ Sculpture
- How Does A Heart Know When It's Big Enough
- Computer Predicts Cancer
- Researchers Link Protein to Tumor Growth
- Metastasis: Learning more about how cancer cells spread
- Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk
- Linking heart disease and cancer
- Uncontrolled cell growth
- When good cells turn bad: Are stem cells a breeding ground for cancer?
- The hunt for the cell's compass
- Goal: A blood test for colon cancer
- Epigenetics and cancer: Are stem cells the link?
- Shedding light on how lymphomas develop
- A global view of cell movement and metastasis
- Turning off tumor suppressors with RNA
- Down Syndrome may lead to lower risk of colon cancer
- Discovering a controller of cell movement
- Proteins that stop blood vessel growth
- Now Playing: Cell Migration Live!
- Fly Cells Flock Together, Follow The Light
- Controlling tissue and organ growth
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Pull Protein's Tail To Curtail Cancer
Cardiovascular Disease (back to top)
- Linking heart disease and cancer
- Proteins that stop blood vessel growth
- Regulating blood pressure--with gas?
- Cholesterol and drug metabolism
- Chemical found in medical devices impairs heart function
- Clues About Controlling Cholesterol Rise From Yeast Studies
Cystic Fibrosis (back to top)
Diabetes and Obesity (back to top)
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Find Genes Related to Body Mass
- Researchers uncover potential inroad to diabetes treatment
- New compound controls weight and blood sugar in mice
- Future diabetes treatments?
- Lowering blood sugar
- A sweet way to detect prediabetes
- Johns Hopkins Researchers Detect Sweet Cacophany While Listening to Cellular Cross-Talk
- Sweet! Sugar Plays Key Role In Cell Division
Education: Graduate and medical (back to top)
- Techno Love-Hate
- Summer Interns Experience a Taste of Research at Johns Hopkins
- Running in place: Graduate student and postdoc face anxiety as their stints lengthen
- Diversity, by intention
- Of stipends and science
- Good bye and good luck
- New medical school curriculum integrates science and medicine as never before
- Reaching Out
- New Challenges to Classic Dreams
- High school scientists
Employment (back to top)
- Hopkins Hosts Visiting Chinese Scientists
- Pleasure's Paths
- Teacher Training for Those Who Can
- Scientists Who Write, Writers Who Do Science
- Peering more closely at peer review
- Scientific integrity in the age of Photoshop
- Retiring Biological Chemistry Professors Honored at Symposium
- Creative solutions to recruit and retain dual-career couples
- Journal fever and the pressure to publish
- Stemming shady science
- Opening the doors of the ivory tower
- Repairing the faculty pipeline
- Luring prospective faculty
- Mr. (or Ms.) PhD Goes to Washington
Epigenetics: Inheritance beyond the genome (back to top)
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Find Genes Related to Body Mass
- Certain Genes Boost Chances For Distributing A Wide Variety of Random Traits and Drive Evolution
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Expose Cancer Cells' Universal 'Dark Matter'
- Scientists Map Epigenetic Changes During Blood Cell Differentiation
- "Epigenetic" Marks a Clue to Multiple Functions of the Brain
- The Epigenetics Center at Johns Hopkins
- Epigenetics may play a role in common diseases
- A caution about chemicals that alter the epigenome
- Epigenetics' new findings on gene regulation spark new studies
- Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk
- Epigenetics and cancer: Blocking the spread
- Epigenetics and cancer: Are stem cells the link?
- Our genomes change as we age
- Deciphering an elephant
- Gene Switch Sites Found Mainly On "Shores," Not Just "Islands" Of The Human Genome
- Large DNA Stretches, Not Single Genes, Shut Off as Cells Mature
Funding Education (back to top)
Funding Scientific Discovery (back to top)
- The Debt Deal and Research Funding
- Carol Greider discusses funding prospects for the next generation of innovators
- Stoking the research engine
- $2.5M NIH "Pioneer" Award Goes to Johns Hopkins Pharmacologist
- Molecular pathways and networks
- Goal: A blood test for colon cancer
- Journal fever and the pressure to publish
- Diversified portfolios
- Of stipends and science
- Stemming shady science
- Calling all donors
- Money in the meantime
- Do team-based project grants provide the answer during a funding crisis?
- An acute need for more endowed chairs
- Lead Advisor: Alice Huang
Genes, Genomics and Bioinformatics (back to top)
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Find Genes Related to Body Mass
- "Synthetic" Chromosome Permits Rapid, On-Demand "Evolution" of Yeast
- Genetic Fishing Expedition Yields Surprising Catch Important to Mammals
- More "Functional" DNA in Genome than Previously Thought
- Dynamic DNA Segments Don't Stay Put
- Yeast Construction Zone
- Scientists Identify DNA That May Contribute to Each Person's Uniqueness
- Using FISH to ID gene parts
- Keeping chromosomes intact
- Solving the structure of a protein that controls genes
- Protecting cells from damaged DNA
- Geography matters in the nucleus
- Scientists out a gene for gout
Hearing and Deafness (back to top)
- That ringing in your ears...
- Exploring the deep recesses of the inner ear
- Surviving Dance Club Music (Noise) With Hearing Intact
- The Beauty and Biology of the Inner Ear
- Now hear this
HIV (back to top)
- Hide-and-Seek: Altered HIV Can't Evade Immune System
- Acne Drug Prevents HIV Breakout
- Treating HIV-induced brain problems
- How HIV escapes cells
- Rooting out reservoirs of HIV infection
Immune System (back to top)
- The Inflammasome: Possible Clue to a Host of Diseases
- Simple Fungus Reveals Clue To Immune System Protection
- Built-In Molecular Brakes Curb the Sniffles
- Leprosy medicine holds promise as therapy for autoimmune diseases
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Tie Cell Cycle “Clock” To Childhood Cancers
- There's a New 'Officer' in the Infection Control Army
- Shedding light on lymphomas
- Mechanisms behind immune cell activation
- New Driver of Transplant Rejection: Platelets
- Avi Kupfer's Talking Picture Show
Learning and Memory (back to top)
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Reveal Molecular Sculptor of Memories
- A Light on Life's Rhythms
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Reveal New Survival Mechanism for Neurons
- Blood Vessels: The Pied Piper for Growing Nerve Cells
- Scientists Reveal Nerve Cells' Navigation System
- Researchers Discover How to Erase Memory
- Genetic 'Parts' List Now Available For Key Part of The Mammalian Brain
- Brain's White Matter: More "Talkative" Than Once Thought
- The Hippocampus’ Remembrance of Things Past
- How nerve cells learn
- How the brain controls muscle movement
- Going through the motions
- Math that Powers Spam Filters Used to Understand how Brain Learns to Move Our Muscles
- To stay or to go
- How the brain remembers things for more than an hour or two
- For motor neurons: Mother may I?
- What emotional memories are made of
- How memories are stored in the brain
- How memories are formed
- Watching memories form in real time
- Reducing memory to a molecule: A researcher explores the molecular essence of memory
- This is your brain on fatty acids
- Adult Brain Cells Are Movers and Shakers
- Gene Linked To Severity of Autism's Social Dysfunction
- Johns Hopkins Researchers Create New Mouse Model of Autism
- "Lab on a Chip" Mimics Brain Chemistry
- "Epigenetic" Marks a Clue to Multiple Functions of the Brain
Model Organisms (back to top)
- Why Many Cells are Better than One
- The Mouse Model: Less than Perfect, Still Invaluable
- Raising the Bar on Animal Care
Molecular Biology (back to top)
- Rearranging the Cell's Skeleton
- Hopkins Researchers Find New Genetic Switch that Allows Cells to Thrive in Low Oxygen
- Researchers Reshape Basic Understanding of Cell Division
- Positively Negative: Cellular Structure's "Enforcer" Role Discovered by Johns Hopkins Scientists
- Making proteins
- Cell machinery sniffs out gene damage by trying on DNA for size
- The complex choreography of protein translation
- Lost in Translation
- The Shape-Shifting Mechanics of Cells
- Argonautes: A Big Turn-Off For Proteins
- Antioxidant controls spinal cord development
- Dividing cells "feel" their way out of warp
- Researchers Uncover New Kink in Gene Control
- Scientist shines light on molecular signaling
- A Biophysicist Studies Promiscuity (Among Molecules)
- How cells communicate: Implications for a rare cognitive disorder
- Scientists Discover How a Tiny Protein Senses All the Communications in a Cell
Muscle Wasting Diseases (back to top)
- How Muscle Develops: A Dance of Cellular Skeletons
- Muscle Science
- Macho Muscle Cells Force Their Way to Fusion
- Muscle "Fusion" Protein Found by Johns Hopkins Researchers
- Maintaining muscle mass
- "Mighty Mice" Made Mightier
- How the brain controls muscle movement
Treating Neurological Diseases (back to top)
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Reveal New Survival Mechanism for Neurons
- Engineering A Better Treatment For Parkinson's Disease
- Mysterious Cells May Play Role in ALS
- Anti-dandruff shampoo ingredient may control siezures
- Antipsychotic drugs: Why they cause weight gain
- Tiny protein-activator responsible for brain cell damage
- How cells communicate: Implications for a rare cognitive disorder
- One Step Closer To Closure: Key to Spinal Cord Defects
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover A Controller Of Brain Circuitry
- Killer Competition: Neurons Duke It Out for Survival
- Improving Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury
- Antioxidant Controls Spinal Cord Development
- Gene Linked To Severity of Autism's Social Dysfunction
- Johns Hopkins Researchers Create New Mouse Model of Autism
- Fruit Fly Discovery Generates Buzz About Brain-Damaging Disorder In Children
Pain (back to top)
- Ouch! Making Sense of Sensation
- Making cox-2 inhibitors safer
- A sixth sense and beyond
- Scientists Find a Source of Nonallergic Itch
Parasitic Diseases (back to top)
- Hopkins Team Finds New Way To Attack TB
- Hopkins Scientists Discover How Protein Trips Up Germs
- More of a reason to eat those vegetables
- Gutsy germs succumb to baby broccoli
- How Montezuma gets his revenge
- What drives the fatal form of malaria
- New lead on malaria treatment
Smell and Taste (back to top)
- How the Brain Smells
- The Sniffing Kidney
- What Accounts For Insect Taste?
- Scientists Discover How Chemical Repellants Trip Up Insects
- Regrowing nose nerves
Stem Cells (back to top)
- Keeping Stem Cells From Changing Fates
- Scientists Reveal How Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Differ From Embryonic Stem Cells
- Scientists Map Epigenetic Changes During Blood Cell Differentiation
- The Molecular Perspective on Stem Cells
- When good cells turn bad: Are stem cells a breeding ground for cancer?
- Regrowing nose nerves
- Making stem cells from developing sperm
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Not Yet the Perfect Alternative
- Stem Cells Battle for Space
Telomeres and Telomerase (back to top)
- Carol Greider Shares 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Stopping cancer by blocking telomerase
Technology (back to top)
- Building a better drug
- Techno Love-Hate
- A Robot that Helps Teach the Language of Surgery
- "Lab on a Chip" Mimics Brain Chemistry
- New Composite Material May Restore Damaged Soft Tissue
- Just Add Water and...Treat Brain Cancer
- Researchers Use Light To Move Molecules
- Researchers Put Proteins Right Where They Want Them: Location Determines a Protein's Role
- Building Tissues From Scratch
- Seeking Collaborators In The Facebook Age
- Little green ions, or Honey, I Shrunk the Mass Spectrometer
- Medical School's Mass Spec Experts Aid Search for Life On Mars
- Need more resolution?
- Bringing up (the protein) baby
- More bang for your microarray buck
- Data dowsers
- Seeing is believing
- All the (microscopic) world's a stage
- RACking up tools
- Core facilities aim to serve while keeping in the black
- A prosthetic arm like no other
- Chemical found in medical devices impairs heart function
Touch and Skin Diseases (back to top)
- Natural Chemical Found in Broccoli Helps Combat Skin Blistering Disease
- Too Hot to Handle! Scientists Identify Heat Sensing Regulator
- Summer Heat Too Hot for You? What is Comfortable?
- Touching a Nerve
Translating Basic Research: From bench to bedside (back to top)
- Reaping the fruits of research
- Getting the word on time: Tech transfer gives early feedback on inventions
- Smothering the fire of genius: Can some patent-holders stymie a field of emerging research?
- Keeping a lid on negativity: should only positive findings be reported?
Vision and Blindness (back to top)
- Shining a Light on Pupil Constriction
- A Light on Life's Rhythms
- Why Animals Don't Have Infrared Vision
- Role of Light Sensor In Temperature Sensation
- All Eyes on Retinal Degeneration
- Proper blood vessel growth in the eyes
- The cause of light blindness
- How eyes respond to light intensity
- Reducing retinal degeneration
- How color vision came to be
- Enhancing color vision
- A sixth sense and beyond
- Baiting the hook
- Sight gone, but not necessarily lost
- An 'eye catching' vision discovery
- Bright Lights, Not-So-Big Pupils
- The difference between eye cells
- Understanding Night Blindness and Calcium
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