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Health
Developing rapid diagnostic tests
Published Feb 7, 2025
Yuka Manabe and her team at the Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases aim to improve global health with point-of-care tests that give rapid results
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Grad student experience
Comfort through company
Published Feb 4, 2025
Students Offering Optimism to Help, or SOOTHE, gives companionship to patients while teaching future doctors about the human side of medicine
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Q+A
How risky is that pint?
Published Jan 28, 2025 Video
A call for cancer warnings on labels for beer, wine, and spirits is a lesson in risk management, says Hopkins cancer expert Otis Brawley
EEG wave in human brain, brain wave patterns on electroencephalogram
Biomedical engineering
New tool uses routine EEGs to cut epilepsy misdiagnoses
Published Jan 22, 2025
EpiScalp could significantly reduce false positives and spare patients from medication side effects, driving restrictions, and other quality-of-life challenges linked to misdiagnoses
David Gracias and Zhaoli Sun
Faculty honors
Two Johns Hopkins researchers named to National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 10, 2024
Chemical and biomolecular engineer David Gracias, transplant surgeon scientist Zhaoli Sun among 170 fellows recognized for contributions to science and society
An animated clip shows a heart digital twin by Natalia Trayanova of Johns Hopkins University
Artificial intelligence
New AI cracks complex engineering problems faster than supercomputers
Published Dec 9, 2024
Shape-shifting technological solution by Hopkins researchers could be a game-changer for engineering designs
closeup of a knot on a tree trunk that resembles an ear
Eye of the beholder
Published Winter 2024
Pat Bernstein turned surgical recovery into artistic and philanthropic passion / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A photograph of a tree that has knots that resemble a face
Neuroscience
We see faces, everywhere
Published Winter 2024
Humans see the face of an old man in the knots of a tree, the shape of an animal in the clouds, the man on the moon. There's a word for that phenomenon: pareidolia. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Microplastics thumb art
A teeny-tiny problem of epic proportions
Published Winter 2024 Video
Maya Dizack, BSPH '24 (ScM), set out years ago on a journey down the Mississippi River to see how widespread microplastics were in this major body of water. Her findings were more alarming than expected. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Eating malfunction
Published Winter 2024
Next to opioid use disorder, anorexia is the most deadly mental health illness. In all, 5% of patients will die within the first four years of diagnosis as a result of heart failure, organ shutdown, low blood sugar, or suicide. The Eating Disorders Coalition reports that every 52 minutes, at least one person loses their life as a direct result of an eating disorder. / Johns Hopkins Magazine