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(10/25/18 4:00pm)
Your Ancestry.com DNA report could help put your delinquent brother behind bars. The ability to utilize data in genetic ancestry databases to determine the identities of criminals is no longer something of science fiction. Investigators recently used DNA from a free online ancestry database to track down the infamous Golden State Killer, the man who killed 12 people and raped 45 women across California between 1976 and 1986.
(10/25/18 4:00pm)
There is an old saying in Korea: If your body is worth a thousand, your eyes are worth nine hundred.
(10/25/18 4:00pm)
Until Jurassic World brought the mosasaur back to life on the big screen, the gigantic sea predator had been extinct for 65 million years, since the Cretaceous period. Mosasaurs were once the apex predators of the sea, and a recent study shows they may have hunted like the modern-day apex predator, the orca whale.
(10/25/18 4:00pm)
Google Maps supports real-time route sharing
(10/25/18 4:00pm)
While medical school is undoubtedly a place for hard work and studying, many medical schools are beginning to shift their curriculum to include the more personable and empathetic parts of being a doctor.
(10/25/18 4:00pm)
Over the past few decades, there has been an explosion of interest in what lies beyond our planet, our solar system and even our galaxy. What we know is that there is a plethora of phenomena that occur outside our limits of exploration for which we have no explanations.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are a class of related sexually-transmitted viruses that cause various cancers and diseases in humans.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
Medical researchers have determined a strategy that treats the latent reservoir in cells infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), potentially dismantling one of the barriers to finding a cure for the virus.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James P. Allison from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Tasuku Honjo from Kyoto University for their discovery of the inhibition of negative immune regulation to aid in cancer therapy.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
It feels like this horse has long since been beaten to death — when are we going to finally land humans on Mars? It’s been a lifetime since the idea was first entertained, but so far the closest we’ve gotten is Matt Damon celebrating potatoes in The Martian. As seemingly drawn out as the process of putting humans on Mars has been, we’re constantly taking steps forward. Undergraduates at Villanova University have experimented with growing common plants in Martian-like soil, producing promising results.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
Just last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report with harsh warnings.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
Darwin’s theory of evolution has been around for nearly 200 years, but its influence does not appear to subside with time. Not only is the topic of evolution a required biology curriculum in schools across the world, but it has also been cited in numerous research studies and papers. Today, it is still driving the forefront of molecular research. In fact, research conducted on the basis of Darwin’s theory of natural selection has recently led scientists to claim the 2018 Nobel Chemistry Prize.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
The annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS), sponsored by both the Hopkins Undergraduate Society for Neuroscience (Nu Rho Psi) and the Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR), took place last week on Oct. 8.
(10/18/18 4:00pm)
In the 19th century, polished white rice was increasingly sought after in Japan. Advances in technology allowed grains to be mechanically milled rather than processed by hand, with the outer and inner husks removed and the remainder polished to a glossy white. This rice was easy to store, lasted longer than its predecessors and, to some, probably tasted better.
(10/11/18 4:00pm)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus capable of infecting vital organs and CD4 cells, a type of lymphocyte, that comprise the human immune system. Once transmitted, the virus grows and progresses in the absence of antiretroviral therapy (ART), which is a drug therapy that either prevents HIV infection or slows down the spread of the virus. These antiretrovirals include several types of inhibitors.
(10/11/18 4:00pm)
Many regions in the human genome are composed of “junk DNA” that do not code for proteins in the cell.
(10/11/18 4:00pm)
The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR) hosted the third lecture in the Student Seminar Series on Oct. 1. The series provides a venue for undergraduates to present their research.
(10/11/18 4:00pm)
In the first week of October, the Nobel prize committees announced the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Prize.
(10/11/18 4:00pm)
The last abortion clinic in Kentucky can stay open after a federal judge ruled that a state law on licensing agreements was unconstitutional.
(10/11/18 4:00pm)
Through a $5.1 billion grant given by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Mechanical Engineering Professor Jeff Wang and his research team are beginning to create a device that can test patients for gonorrhea and detect whether the strain has developed antibiotic resistance. Wang is a core faculty member at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT).
