Category: School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins epigenetic center receives $16.8 million NIH grant
September 28, 2009
Johns Hopkins’ Center for the Epigenetics of Common Human Disease has been chosen as one of four recipients of a $45 million National Institutes of Health grant for Centers of Excellence to advance genomics research. The Johns Hopkins center will receive $16.8 million over five years.
NIH Pioneer, Innovator awards go to Johns Hopkins scientists
September 28, 2009
A Johns Hopkins scientist who proposes to manipulate forces to activate enzymes in live cells and a researcher who has developed a way to hunt down tuberculosis germs with real-time imaging have received a total of $4 million in special awards from the National Institutes of Health.
Study: Johns Hopkins researchers ID brain-protecting protein
September 28, 2009
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a novel protein that can protect brain cells by interrupting a naturally occurring “stress cascade” resulting in cell death.
Mild exercise in ICU reduces bad effects of prolonged bed rest
September 28, 2009
Critical care experts at Johns Hopkins are reporting initial success in boosting recovery and combating muscle wasting among critically ill, mostly bed-bound patients using any one of a trio of mild physical therapy exercises during their stays in the intensive care unit.
Scientists find pace-setter for repair in badly damaged lungs
September 28, 2009
After more than 50 experiments in mice, medical scientists at Johns Hopkins have mapped out the basic steps taken by a particular set of white blood cells in setting the pace of recovery after serious lung injury.
Stem cell experts to convene
September 21, 2009
Leading voices from the global stem cell community—including researchers, policy-makers, legal experts, patient advocates and others—will convene in Baltimore this week for a three-day conference to share information in the emerging field and to chart the future of regenerative medicine.
Dividing cells ‘feel’ their way out of warp, back to symmetry
September 21, 2009
Every moment, millions of a body’s cells flawlessly divvy up their genes and pinch perfectly in half to form two identical progeny for the replenishment of tissues and organs—even as they collide, get stuck, and squeeze through infinitesimally small spaces that distort their shapes.
Study: Wrong dose of heart meds too frequent in children
September 21, 2009
Infants experience errors most often, but all kids are vulnerable
Animal TB ‘tracker’ expected to speed drug, vaccine studies
September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs, noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The new monitoring system is expected to speed up what is currently a slow and cumbersome process to test the safety and efficacy of various TB drug regimens and vaccines in animals. Plans are already under way for developing a similar system to monitor TB disease in humans.
JHU researchers make stem cells from developing sperm
September 14, 2009
The promise of stem cell therapy may lie in uncovering how adult cells revert to a primordial, stem cell state, whose fate is yet to be determined. Now, cell scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have identified key molecular players responsible for this reversion in fruit fly sperm cells. Reporting online Aug. 6 in Cell Stem Cell, researchers show that two proteins are responsible for redirecting cells on the way to becoming sperm back to stem cells.