Does Form Follow Function? Johns Hopkins Medicine Researchers Advance...
Scientists have long understood that parts of cells, called organelles, evolved to have certain shapes and sizes because their forms are closely related to how they function.
View ArticleImmune Checkpoint Blockade Prior to Surgery Promising in Multiple Cancer Types
Treating cancer with immunotherapies known as an immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) prior to surgery (so-called neoadjuvant immunotherapy) has been a rapidly growing area of research, but the scientific...
View ArticleResearchers Report Protein Mutation Creates 'Super' T Cells with Potential to...
Using laboratory-grown cells from humans and genetically engineered mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have evidence that modifying a specific protein in immune white blood cells known...
View ArticleCapturing Immunotherapy Response in a Blood Drop
Liquid biopsies are blood tests that can serially measure circulating tumor DNA (cell-free DNA that is shed into the bloodstream by dying cancer cells). When used in patients with advanced non-small...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Medicine Experts Promote Awareness of Health Care Needs for...
Johns Hopkins Medicine experts lead the longest-running clinic for people with dwarfism and other skeletal conditions. Started in the late 1950s, the clinic, now called the Kathryn and Alan C.
View ArticleStudy Finds Delayed ACL Surgery May Be Safe for Many Adults, Less So for Some...
A Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of medical records concludes that delaying surgical treatment of the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in some children is associated with a higher risk of new...
View Article13th Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture Emphasizes Working Together to Create a...
BALTIMORE -- More than 880 people attended the 13th Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Oct. 7, virtually and in person at The Johns Hopkins Hospital's Turner Auditorium.
View ArticleHow to Have a Safe and Healthy Halloween -- Johns Hopkins Children's Center...
Halloween is a special and spooky time of the year filled with costumes, candy and trick-or-treating. As families prepare to celebrate, Johns Hopkins Children's Center experts are available for...
View ArticleNewsmakers: Basic Research Findings by Johns Hopkins Scientists Focus on Gene...
Basic Research Findings by Johns Hopkins Scientists Focus on Gene Sequencing, Hearing Loss and a Brain Disorder
View ArticleThree Johns Hopkins Medicine Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of...
Three faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an independent organization made up of leading professionals from...
View ArticleNews Tip: Johns Hopkins Medicine Experts Available for Interviews on Winter...
The United States' respiratory virus season -- which typically lasts from October to April -- is making its annual return. The flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and other...
View ArticleBrain-Computer Interface Restores Control of Home Devices for Johns Hopkins...
Tim Evans is participating in a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, that is looking at a series of studies using the...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Marijuana Use Damages Brain Immune Cells Vital to Adolescent...
In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found changes to the structure of...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Medicine Researchers Show Medical Imaging Technique Can Observe...
In a study that further investigates and hones the use of these bacterial-based cancer treatments, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a novel method to accurately image the way...
View ArticleNews Tip: November Is National Diabetes Month; Johns Hopkins Experts...
With so many people in the U.S. at risk of developing diabetes, it is critical for the general public to understand that they can take action to prevent it, such as being more active and making small...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Medicine Researchers Create Machine Learning Model To Calculate...
A research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine has created and trained a machine learning model to calculate percent necrosis (PN) -- or, what percentage of a tumor is "dead" and no longer active -- in...
View ArticlePathologic Scoring Shows Promise for Assessing Lung Tumor Therapy Response
A new pathologic scoring system that accurately assesses how much lung tumor is left after a patient receives presurgical cancer treatments can be used to predict survival, according to new research...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Body Mass Index Isn't Obstacle to Chest Masculinization...
In what is believed to be the largest study of the association between BMI and postoperative complications following chest masculinization surgery, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for...
View ArticleKetogenic Diet Becomes Life-saving Treatment for 4-Year-Old Johns Hopkins...
November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about this common disorder of the nervous system, its challenges, symptoms and treatment options.
View ArticleResearchers Explore Origins of Lupus, Find Reason for Condition's Prevalence...
For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men.
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