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School of Medicine

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Smart bait

Published Fall 2017

Sure, you can teach a man to fish, but a Hopkins electrical engineer aims to develop a foolproof lure that can do it / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Behavioral biology

Crash course in the nature of mind

Published Fall 2017

Roland Griffiths' psilocybin experiments have produced striking evidence for therapeutic uses of hallucinogens / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Brain's reaction to 'food cues' could predict future obesity

Published Aug 24, 2017

Small study finds brain's self-regulation system less active in teens at risk for adult obesity / Hopkins Medicine

Brain science

Serotonin: The key to unlocking Alzheimer's?

Published Aug 18, 2017

Brain scan study from School of Medicine adds to evidence that lower brain serotonin levels are linked to Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia / School of Medicine

Cancer research

Scientists develop blood test to screen for cancer

Published Aug 16, 2017

Test detects tumor-derived DNA in blood, could cut down on over-testing for populations most at risk for certain cancers / Hopkins Medicine

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Cardiac health

Eliminating unnecessary blood tests

Published Aug 14, 2017

Widely ordered test adds no significant value in detecting heart attacks, contributes to rising medical costs

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Evolution

Extinction mystery solved?

Published Aug 11, 2017

New fossil evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey's demise in Jamaica

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Cancer research

Identifying cancerous 'shape shifters'

Published Aug 11, 2017

Scientists from Kimmel Cancer Center identify gene that affects prostate cancer's ability to change shape, squeeze into other organs / Hopkins Medicine