Category: Divisions
APL shapes ‘precursor’ mission for exploration of an asteroid
September 13, 2010
Ten years ago, NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission made history as the first spacecraft to orbit and land on an asteroid. Now the team behind that successful mission proposes a sequel that could pave the way for astronauts to explore an asteroid for the first time. Engineers and scientists at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics […]
JHM researchers unravel clues to infertility in obese women
September 13, 2010
Obese women have a well-known risk for infertility, but a new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study has unraveled what investigators here believe is the mechanism that accounts for the risk. The research, conducted in mice and published online Sept. 8 in the journal Cell Metabolism, shows that the pituitary gland actively responds to chronically high […]
Public health: Trauma center care found to be cost-effective
September 13, 2010
Trauma center care not only saves lives, it is a cost-effective way of treating major trauma, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. Although treatment at a trauma center is more expensive, the authors say, the benefits of this approach in terms […]
NCI grant launches nanotech cancer center
September 7, 2010
Faculty members associated with the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have received a $13.6 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. The new Johns Hopkins center brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and physicians to develop nanotechnology-based diagnostic platforms and therapeutic strategies for comprehensive […]
Five BME doctoral candidates named 2011 Siebel Scholars
September 7, 2010
One graduate student is helping to create high-tech prosthetic hands that can be maneuvered by an amputee’s thoughts. Another is trying to convert ordinary skin cells into more useful stem cells. Still another is working to find signs of cancer in a single DNA molecule in a drop of blood. Yet another is making nanoparticles […]
School of Nursing welcomes its largest incoming class
September 7, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has welcomed its highest enrollment of entering baccalaureate students since it opened in 1984. The new class of 154 traditional baccalaureate students began its academic journey on Aug. 25. Combined with the total students in all baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral programs, the school has 775 students for the […]
Study: New Parkinson’s gene is linked to immune system
September 7, 2010
A hunt throughout the human genome for variants associated with common late-onset Parkinson’s disease has revealed a new genetic link that implicates the immune system and offers new targets for drug development. The long-term study involved a global consortium, including Johns Hopkins researchers from the Center for Inherited Disease Research, who performed genomewide association studies […]
Lower blood pressure may preserve kidney function in some
September 7, 2010
Intensively treating hypertension in some African-Americans with kidney disease by pushing blood pressure well below the current recommended goal may significantly decrease the number who lose kidney function and require dialysis, suggests a Johns Hopkins–led study published Sept. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine. “This is not a panacea. We have a lot […]
Berman Institute scholar calls for regulation of genetic tests
September 7, 2010
An opinion piece by a legal scholar from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in the Aug. 12 issue of Nature calls for the Food and Drug Administration to regulate all health-related genetic tests—whether available directly to consumers or through a health care provider—using an approach that imposes requirements proportionate to a test’s level […]
Street outreach workers important for violence prevention
September 7, 2010
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, based at the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, describes how using street outreach workers is an effective strategy for reaching and engaging youth with the goal of violence prevention and intervention. Street outreach workers are typically members of the community […]