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Genetics

Makeup of mental illness

Published May 28, 2013

Family studies suggest rare genetic mutations combine to cause schizophrenia / Hopkins Medicine

Online database to speed genetic discoveries

Published April 2013

Database allows any clinician to document cases of unusual genetic diseases for analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins, elsewhere / Gazette

Breakthrough

Vogelstein receives $3 million life sciences award

Published Feb 20, 2013

Johns Hopkins oncologist among 11 recipients of Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, world's richest academic prize for medicine, biology / The New York Times

Genetics and mass killers

Published Jan 16, 2013

Hopkins professor Nathaniel Comfort asks, could genetics help us understand mass killers? / Hartford Courant

Predisposed to violence?

Published Dec 26, 2012

Genetics won't explain behavior of Newtown gunman, experts say / The Huffington Post

Jimmy's kids

Published Winter 2012

JHU alum is putting crowd-funding to work for rare disease research / Johns Hopkins Magazine

A passion for discovery

Published July 11, 2012

Investigator Harry Dietz studied rare genetic disorder Marfan syndrome to determine its underlying causes

The Butterfly's Effects

Published Summer 2012

We can't talk with the animals. But by observing their most awe-inspiring traits, we can learn enough from them to create new medicines and robots. / Johns Hopkins Magazine