Category: Divisions
Combo ‘epigenetic’ therapy may restore anti-cancer gene activity
November 14, 2011
A new type of therapy aimed at reversing the gene silencing that promotes cancer-cell growth has shown promising results in a small clinical trial conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Forty-five late-stage lung cancer patients who received a two-drug combination designed to restore anti-cancer gene activity survived about two months longer than […]
Peabody Opera Theatre to present Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’
November 14, 2011
The Peabody Opera Theatre will present Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress this weekend in the historic Baltimore theater now known as the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric. The inaugural season of Lyric Opera Baltimore—the successor to the Baltimore Opera Company, which ceased operations in 2009—opened on Nov. 4 with La traviata […]
Carey School and MICA partner for innovative degree
November 14, 2011
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and the Maryland Institute College of Art will partner to launch the MBA/MA in Design Leadership, focusing on the integration of creative thinking into all aspects of organizational management and development. In addition to providing the knowledge and skills traditionally associated with an MBA curriculum, this full-time, dual-degree program […]
Frontiers in Medicine and Science Day
November 14, 2011
The Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus recently hosted 600 seventh-graders for the third annual Frontiers in Science and Medicine Day. The event, which is run in partnership with 17 other research centers, companies and health care organizations, includes an hour of hands-on science and medical activities at the campus and an hourlong lab tour at […]
Common bacteria cause some colon tumors by altering a gene
November 14, 2011
Working with lab cultures and mice, Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a strain of the common gut pathogen Bacteroides fragilis causes colon inflammation and increases activity of a gene called spermine oxidase, or SMO, in the intestine. The effect is to expose the gut to hydrogen peroxide—the caustic, germ-fighting substance found in many medicine […]
Soldiers evacuated with headaches don’t return
November 14, 2011
Headaches, a virtually universal human complaint at one time or another, are among the top reasons for medical evacuation of military personnel from Iraq and Afghanistan, and for ongoing depletion of active-duty ranks in those countries, according to research led by Johns Hopkins specialists. Just one-third of soldiers sent home because of headaches return to […]
Finding: Healthy people over 70 can safely donate a kidney
November 14, 2011
Kidney transplants performed using organs from live donors over the age of 70 are safe for the donors and lifesaving for the recipients, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. The study shines new light on a long-ignored potential source of organs that could address a profound national shortage. Although the study found that kidneys from older […]
NSF funds massive data ‘pipeline’
November 7, 2011
Financed by a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, one of the world’s fastest and most advanced scientific computer networks—one capable of transferring in and out of The Johns Hopkins University per day the amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabinets filled with text—will be built on the university’s Homewood campus, with support […]
Study shows efforts to heal the Chesapeake Bay are working
November 7, 2011
Efforts to reduce the flow of fertilizers, animal waste and other pollutants into the Chesapeake Bay appear to be giving a boost to the bay’s health, a new study that analyzed 60 years of water-quality data has concluded. The study, published in the November issue of Estuaries and Coasts, was conducted by researchers from The […]
Outbreaks: Experts discuss roles of social media, medical response teams
November 7, 2011
Anthony S. Fauci, the renowned longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his groundbreaking work in battling the HIV/AIDS pandemic and establishing national biodefense programs, will lead a panel of disaster preparedness experts today, Nov. 7, as part of this fall’s Johns […]