Study In Mice Advances Understanding of How Brains Remember Decisions — For Better or Worse

Mammal brains — including those of humans — store and recall impressive amounts of information based on our good and bad decisions and interactions in an ever-changing world. Now, in a series of new experiments with mice, scientists at Johns...
23-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Johns Hopkins Co-Leads Research Effort on Child ‘Poliolike’ Condition

Johns Hopkins Medicine and University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers will lead a multicenter, multinational study of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), the “poliolike” condition affecting children that causes loss of muscle control. The...
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Common Feature of Cancer Cells That Makes Them Appear Overstuffed May Also Be Their Achilles’ Heel

In a study using yeast cells and data from cancer cell lines, Johns Hopkins University scientists report they have found a potential weak spot among cancer cells that have extra sets of chromosomes, the structures that carry genetic material. The...
22-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Disrupting Immune Cell Behavior May Contribute to Heart Disease And Failure, Study Shows

On an ice hockey team, the players all start off with identical uniforms, skates and a stick. But if you take one of them, add padding, a glove, and a mask; and switch the stick to one with a larger blade, then you get a goalie. Now, the player has...
18-Jul-2019 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Johns Hopkins Develops Criteria for Diagnostic Imaging

On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been designated a so-called “qualified provider-led entity.” This allows Johns Hopkins to develop criteria that...
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Test shown to improve accuracy in identifying precancerous pancreatic cysts

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center study coauthors Anne Marie Lennon, Simeon Springer, Marco Dal Molin, Christopher Wolfgang and Bert Vogelstein will participate in a press teleconference organized by the American Association for the Advancement of...
15-Jul-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Save Your Money: Vast Majority Of Dietary Supplements Don’t Improve Heart Health or Put Off Death

In a massive new analysis of findings from 277 clinical trials using 24 different interventions, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have found that almost all vitamin, mineral and other nutrient supplements or diets cannot be linked to...
16-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Loose RNA Molecules Rejuvenate Skin, Researchers Discover

Want to smooth out your wrinkles, erase scars and sunspots, and look years younger? Millions of Americans a year turn to lasers and prescription drugs to rejuvenate their skin, but exactly how that rejuvenation works has never been fully explained....
15-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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