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Released: 14-Sep-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins Scientists’ Findings Could Shed Light on Cancer, Aging
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Researchers have found molecular evidence of how a biochemical process controls the lengths of protective chromosome tips, a potentially significant step in ultimately understanding cancer growth and aging.

   
Released: 2-Sep-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Neighbors, but Not Classmates
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Contrary to assumptions that disadvantaged neighborhoods trap children in failing schools, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist has found the opposite to be true: as a neighborhood’s income decreases, its range of educational experiences greatly expands.

14-Aug-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Don’t I Know That Guy?
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You see a man at the grocery store. Is that the fellow you went to college with or just a guy who looks like him? It turns out that a tiny spot in the brain has the answer.

18-Aug-2015 11:00 AM EDT
The Amazing Adaptability of the Brain’s Vision Center
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By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person’s brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist has found

4-Aug-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Computer Algorithm Can Forecast Patients’ Deadly Sepsis
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A new computer-based method correctly predicts septic shock in 85 percent of cases, without increasing the false positive rate from screening methods that are common now.

Released: 4-Aug-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Cybersecurity Experts to Discuss Tricky Balance between Data Sharing and Privacy
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The second annual Senior Executive Cybersecurity Conference (Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore) will focus on the conflict between crime fighting and privacy. Early-bird discount registration prices are in effect through Aug. 15.

Released: 18-Jun-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Tamper-Resistant Pill Dispenser Aims to Stamp Out Medication Misuse
 Johns Hopkins University

You can whack it with a hammer, attack it with a drill, or even stab it with a screwdriver. But try as you might, you won’t be able to get into this pill dispenser. Which is exactly the idea.

Released: 18-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins Math Students a Hit with Minor League Baseball Schedulers
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With the help of some Johns Hopkins University math students, Minor League Baseball is catching up with the majors in using computers to produce season schedules.

Released: 15-Jun-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Love and Money: How Low-Income Dads Really Provide
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Low-income fathers who might be labeled “deadbeat dads” often spend as much on their children as parents in formal child-support arrangements, but they choose to give goods like food and clothing rather than cash.

Released: 11-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Noninvasive Brain Stimulator May Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms in a Patient’s Home
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Graduate students invent a headband-shaped device to deliver noninvasive brain stimulation that tamps down the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

   
Released: 2-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
When the Color We See Isn’t the Color We Remember
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Though people can distinguish among millions of colors, we have trouble remembering specific shades because our brains tend to store what we’ve seen as one of just a few basic hues.

Released: 1-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Kit May Help Train Global Health Providers to Insert, Remove Contraceptive Implants
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To address a global health challenge, a team of biomedical engineering undergraduates has developed a kit to teach front-line health care workers in developing countries how to implant contraceptives.

Released: 27-May-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Who’s Making Sure the Power Stays On?
 Johns Hopkins University

Electricity systems in the United States are so haphazardly regulated for reliability, it’s nearly impossible for customers to know their true risk of losing service in a major storm.

Released: 5-May-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Say What? How the Brain Separates Our Ability to Talk and Write
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Although the human ability to write evolved from our ability to speak, writing and talking are now such independent systems in the brain that someone who can’t write a grammatically correct sentence may be able say it aloud flawlessly.

27-Apr-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Holy Agility! Keen Sense of Touch Guides Nimble Bat Flight
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Bats fly with breathtaking precision because their wings are equipped with highly sensitive touch sensors, cells that respond to even slight changes in airflow, researchers demonstrated.

Released: 23-Apr-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Tiny Lab Devices Could Attack Huge Problem of Drug-Resistant Infections
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A Johns Hopkins engineer, supported by a major NIH grant, is leading a multi-institution team that wants to keep bacterial infections from dodging the dwindling arsenal of drugs that destroy the deadly microbes.

Released: 20-Apr-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Chia-Ling Chien Awarded 2015 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal
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Chia-Ling Chien, a condensed matter physicist at the Johns Hopkins University, has received the prestigious 2015 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal from the Commission on Magnetism within the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

1-Apr-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Element of Surprise Helps Babies Learn
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Infants have innate knowledge about the world and learn best when their expectations are defied.

Released: 1-Apr-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Prestigious White House Award Cites JHU Professor’s Mentoring Skills
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J. Tilak Ratnanather, an expert in brain mapping and a champion of people with hearing loss, is a recipient of the Presidential Award of Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

Released: 1-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins Researchers Partner with Resorts World Sentosa in Singaporeto Probe Mercury Levels in Dolphins
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Johns Hopkins environmental scientists are collaborating with researchers from Dolphin Island at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore, to learn more about how and where mercury accumulates in the bodies of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins.

Released: 25-Mar-2015 3:05 PM EDT
How A Little Inflation Could Lead to a Lot More Jobs
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The Federal Reserve could help create even more jobs by keeping interest rates near zero and tolerating a little inflation, an economist argues.

Released: 11-Mar-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Drug Restores Brain Function and Memory in Early Alzheimer’s Disease
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An existing epilepsy drug reverses a condition in elderly patients who are at high risk for dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease.

Released: 10-Mar-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Rare Split Images of Supernova Put Johns Hopkins Astronomer in the Spotlight
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A Johns Hopkins astronomer played a key role in the recent discovery of a distant exploding star whose light split into four distinct images in a display seen for the first time by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Released: 24-Feb-2015 10:00 AM EST
Ultra-Thin Nanowires Can Trap Electron ‘Twisters’ That Disrupt Superconductors
 Johns Hopkins University

Superconductor materials are prized for their ability to carry an electric current without resistance, a valuable trait crippled or lost when electrons swirl into tiny tornado-like formations called vortices. To keep supercurrents flowing at top speed, scientists have figured out how to constrain troublesome vortices by trapping them within extremely short, ultra-thin nanowires.

Released: 9-Feb-2015 3:00 PM EST
Music News Tips from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
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Story ideas on classical music, dance and music education from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Released: 4-Feb-2015 5:00 PM EST
Two Johns Hopkins Engineering Faculty Members Receive NSF CAREER Awards
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Two junior faculty members in Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering have been selected to receive National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, which recognize the highest level of excellence among early stage researchers.

Released: 29-Jan-2015 3:00 PM EST
$250,000 Johns Hopkins President’s Frontier Award Goes to Sharon Gerecht
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A Johns Hopkins engineering professor who is coaxing stem cells into forming blood vessels that can nurture healthy tissue or starve cancer cells is the first recipient of a new university award that provides $250,000 in research funding.

Released: 27-Jan-2015 10:00 AM EST
Johns Hopkins Launches $15 Million Award Program to Enhance Faculty-Led Research
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The Johns Hopkins University announces two new award programs that together will provide an additional $15 million to advance innovative faculty-led research over the next three years.

Released: 23-Jan-2015 11:00 AM EST
Media Advisory: Super Bowl Commercial Expert Available
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A Johns Hopkins researcher who has studied what makes a Super Bowl commercial successful is available to discuss, analyze and rate the 2015 ads.

Released: 16-Jan-2015 12:00 PM EST
Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Shares 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize
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Johns Hopkins University's Marc Kamionkowski is a winner of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, one of the top prizes in the field, the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics announced.

Released: 9-Jan-2015 8:00 AM EST
Map of Mysterious Molecules In Our Galaxy Sheds New Light on Century-Old Puzzle
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Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have created a unique map of enigmatic molecules in our galaxy that are responsible for puzzling features in the light from stars.

Released: 7-Jan-2015 3:00 PM EST
Science at Risk as Young Researchers Increasingly Denied Research Grants
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America’s youngest scientists, increasingly losing research dollars, are leaving the academic biomedical workforce, a brain drain that poses grave risks for the future of science, according to a journal article published this week by Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels.

Released: 29-Dec-2014 10:00 AM EST
Film "Particle Fever" Wins Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism
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David E. Kaplan, a Johns Hopkins University professor, theoretical particle physicist and documentary producer, received the 2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism for his contributions to the production of the film Particle Fever.

Released: 22-Dec-2014 10:00 AM EST
Science News Tips from Johns Hopkins
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Science news tips for reporters, including one story suggestion from Johns Hopkins Magazine on JHU and ETS and another on mistletoe and cancer.

Released: 15-Dec-2014 10:00 AM EST
Climate Change Could Leave Cities More in the Dark
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Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give other major metro areas a lot to worry about in future storms.

Released: 9-Dec-2014 10:00 AM EST
Twitter Posts May Shine a Fresh Light on Mental Illness Trends
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Computers scientists are tracking tweets to gather important information about common mental illnesses.

Released: 24-Nov-2014 12:00 PM EST
New Online 3-D Tool Seeks Possible Targets To Disable Ebola Virus
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Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers have developed a free, browser-based online tool that could speed up the creation of new drugs to treat or prevent Ebola virus infections.

Released: 20-Nov-2014 3:00 PM EST
Deep-Earth Carbon Offers Clues on Origin of Life on Earth
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Scientists reveal details about carbon deep beneath the Earth’s surface and suggest ways it might have influenced the history of life on the planet.

Released: 10-Nov-2014 12:00 PM EST
Johns Hopkins University Astrophysicist Shares $3 Million Breakthrough Prize
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Adam Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University and a Nobel laureate, has been named a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of the continuing acceleration of the universe.

Released: 31-Oct-2014 9:35 AM EDT
Viewing Cancer on the Move: New Device Yields Close-Up Look at Metastasis
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Johns Hopkins engineers have invented a lab device to give cancer researchers an unprecedented microscopic look at metastasis, the complex way that tumor cells spread through the body, causing more than 90 percent of cancer-related deaths.

   
Released: 21-Oct-2014 9:25 AM EDT
Big Black Holes Can Block New Stars
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Massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block formation of new stars in aging galaxies, a study has found.

Released: 15-Oct-2014 1:00 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship
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Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Brice Ménard has been awarded a 2014 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Ménard plans to use this fellowship to work on a new technique to estimate the distance of galaxies and then explore new directions of research.

Released: 10-Oct-2014 8:00 AM EDT
Leaky, Star-Forming Galaxies Lead Johns Hopkins Researchers to Better Understand the Universe
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Focusing on large, star-forming galaxies, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University were able to measure radiation leaks in an effort to better understand how the universe evolved as the first stars were formed.

Released: 6-Oct-2014 12:45 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Brain GPS Experts Available to Talk about Nobel Prize
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David Foster, assistant professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and James J. Knierim, professor of neuroscience in the university’s Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, are available for interviews to discuss today’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Released: 30-Sep-2014 11:00 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins to Co-Host Cyber Security Conference for Top Business Executives
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Johns Hopkins information security experts have helped organize an upcoming conference to inform top executives about the growing risks of digital break-ins, how to reduce these risks, and how to manage the aftermath of a data breach.

Released: 18-Sep-2014 12:00 PM EDT
JHU Researchers Make New Discovery about 3D Shape Processing in the Brain
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While previous studies of the brain suggest that processing of objects and places occurs in very different locations, a research team has now found that they are closely related.

Released: 15-Sep-2014 12:00 PM EDT
When Rulers Can’t Understand the Ruled
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A Johns Hopkins study a finds significant gap in demographics, experience and partisanship between Washington insiders and the Americans they govern

11-Sep-2014 10:05 AM EDT
Owls Provides Clues on How Humans Focus Attention
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Research with barn owls reveals how the brain decides what it should pay attention to among competing external events.

14-Aug-2014 10:00 AM EDT
New Milky Way Maps Help Solve Stubborn Interstellar Material Mystery
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An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer to cracking a stardust puzzle that has vexed them for nearly a century.

Released: 8-Aug-2014 9:35 AM EDT
Google’s ATAP and Johns Hopkins University Team Up in Tech Development Pact
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The Johns Hopkins University has entered into a partnership agreement with Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, aimed at speeding up the development of new technology and moving the resulting products toward the marketplace more quickly.



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