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Genetic disorders
Heart failure reversed in Marfan mice
Published Nov 16, 2017 Video
Study: Increasing stress on Marfan hearts—even at levels well-tolerated in other hearts—can initiate heart failure
A young woman learns to use a cell phone app connected to a manikin doll
Biomedical engineering
Funding NeMo
Published Nov 15, 2017
Hopkins researchers win $100K grant from Gates Foundation for their lifesaving baby monitoring device
Free fallin' for data
First-semester rush
Published Nov 15, 2017 Video
First-year Biomedical Engineering students measure how a roller coaster ride affects heart rate and blood flow
A little boy holds a plastic magnifying glass and inspects a rock that is laid out on a note card labeled with the number 4
E.T., stone home
Science rocks
Published Nov 9, 2017 Video
JHU researcher enlists citizen scientists to track down rocks harboring earthly 'extraterrestrials'
Fully charged
Scientists develop more durable lithium-ion battery
Published Nov 9, 2017 Video
Applied Physics Lab researchers help create breakthrough cuttable, flexible, submersible battery / Applied Physics Laboratory
Illustration shows a pyramid of scientists dropping fluid into a beaker; the scientist at the top of the pyramid is dropping something red in
The scientific process
Could you repeat that?
Published Nov 7, 2017
As retractions of published papers grow worldwide, a new effort at Johns Hopkins aims to improve standards and protocols to make science reproducible
A young boy sits over an open sewer in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. The sewer is filled with trash and debris. The ground is packed dirt.
Global warming's disproportionate impact
Published Nov 6, 2017
Effects of climate change likely to be more deadly in poor, urban African settlements
Cell biology
A scientific first: Artificial hydrogels formed in living cells
Published Nov 6, 2017
Formation of these difficult-to-study cell structures could advance the understanding of how they contribute to diseases such as ALS
Three Hopkins team members pose with silver medals
Undergraduate research
JHU 2nd at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Published Nov 3, 2017 Video
Undergraduate students developed AssistENT, a device designed to open obstructed nostrils and aid sleep
Artist's rendition of Mars shows the planet in silhouette against a tiny sun
The search for water on Mars
Published Nov 2, 2017
Lecture explores lingering questions relating to the presence of liquid water on the Red Planet