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4 hrs ago | SFGate

Researchers team up for stem cell work

Stem cell researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Stanford Medical School have joined a new national consortium linking teams of scientists who normally work independently with other groups that seek to discover new therapies for varied human disorders.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Cell Biology, Biology, Science

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Post Chronicle

Gonorrhea Drug Halts Tumor Growth

A gonorrhea medicine used since the 1930s has shown an ability to halt the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors, scientists in Maryland say.

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Related Topix: Gonorrhea, Medicine, Health, Science / Technology

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Relishing an unsympathetic role

In "The Squid and the Whale," playing the older adolescent son of an estranged intellectual couple, and in "Adventureland," playing a recent college grad and aspiring travel writer, spinning his wheels and falling in love at a summer job in an amusement park, Eisenberg was equally potent playing fecklessness or sincerity, and better yet when he ...

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Related Topix: Adventureland, Zombieland, The Squid and the Whale, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Jesse Eisenberg, Baltimore Metro, Entertainment

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Rochester IMC

BTL:Karzai Government Corruption Hobbles Obama Afghan War Strategy

Karzai Government Corruption Hobbles Obama Afghan War Strategy Interview with Mel Goodman, former CIA analyst, conducted by Scott Harris In a blow to Washington's efforts to restore credibility to a tainted election process, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main challenger dropped out of the presidential run off election scheduled for Nov.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai

Wed Nov 04, 2009

North County News

Hit-and-run victim mourned at service

Several hundred people gathered in the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center at Johns Hopkins University Nov.

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Related Topix: Student Society, Sororities, Alpha Phi, Mark, IL

TownHall.com

Economic Myths and Irrelevancy

Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Science Daily

New Activity Found For A Potential Anti-cancer Agent From Marine Sponges

That's the assessment of Daniel Romo, a Texas A&M chemistry professor, and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University who are pioneers in research involving this novel marine natural product.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Molecular Biology

Tue Nov 03, 2009

WMAR

Memorial Held for JHU Student Killed in October Crash

Friends and family are saying good-bye to a promising young student killed last month at Johns Hopkins University.

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The Baltimore Sun

Judge revokes Meighan's bail in July hit-run case in Baltimore

A judge revoked Thomas Meighan Jr.'s $100,000 bail - associated with July hit-and-run charges - on Monday, saying the 39-year-old, who has at least nine drunken driving convictions and is linked to a college student's death, is a "serious danger" to himself and the community.

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Related Topix: Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro

The Baltimore Sun

Many at Hopkins irked by school's playing Harvard in movie

The Johns Hopkins University passed itself off as Harvard in a movie Monday without feeling the least bit flattered.

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Related Topix: Harvard, ID, Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Entertainment

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Driving down the road to ruin

Before Thomas Meighan Jr.'s name was ever connected in the fatal hit-and-run of a Johns Hopkins student, his actions and correspondence to the courts showed a pattern of self-destruction and deceit According to witness accounts, after striking Miriam Frankl, a white truck traveling north on the service drive of the 3500 block of St.

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Related Topix: Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro, Drugs

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Groups press for tougher drunk driving laws

To address the seemingly intractable problem of fatalities related to drunken or impaired driving in Maryland, the General Assembly convened a task force to review what some advocates had long complained were inadequate laws.

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Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia Government, Pennsylvania Government

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Gazette.Net

For state's robotics industry, the future is here

James Dcane, a design engineer at Anthrotronix in Silver Spring, controls the CosmoBot robot with the AcceleGlove through hand movements and gestures.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, Maryland, University of Maryland College Park

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Medical News Today

New "Schizophrenia Gene" Prompts Researchers To Test Potential Drug Target

Main Category: Schizophrenia Also Included In: Genetics ; Autism Article Date: 27 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT Johns Hopkins scientists report having used a commercially available drug to successfully "rescue" animal brain cells that they had intentionally damaged by manipulating a newly discovered gene that links susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and ...

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Related Topix: Schizophrenia, Medicine, Health, Genetics, Biology, Science

PakTribune

Electrical Muscle Stimulation Helps Knee Arthritis

ISLAMABAD: Home-based electrical stimulation of thigh muscles can improve strength and physical performance in people with osteoarthritis of the knee.

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Related Topix: Arthritis, Medicine, Health

Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

4 teens charged with vandalizing cars in North Baltimore

A city police officer working overtime security for Johns Hopkins University in North Baltimore arrested four teenagers on East University Parkway early today on charges that they vandalized three cars and a garage by spray-painting them.

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Related Topix: Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro, Family, Teenagers

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Hellenic News of America

Cholesterol and Cancer: Answers and Some New Questions

Cholesterol and Cancer: Answers and Some New Questions Study shows low cholesterol as a symptom of cancer rather than a cause.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Cholesterol, Prostate Cancer, Philadelphia, PA, Charitable Organizations

The Baltimore Sun

A truck's harrowing path through the city

Thomas L. Meighan Jr.'s white Ford F250 truck terrorized Baltimore for hours before and after its driver allegedly struck a 20-year-old Johns Hopkins University student in a fatal hit-and-run Oct.

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Related Topix: Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro, Elkridge, MD

Tue Oct 27, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Scenes for Facebook movie to be filmed in Baltimore next week

The brick and marble of Johns Hopkins University 's Homewood campus will double for the brick and marble of Harvard University in "The Social Network," a movie about the creation of Facebook that will shoot here on Monday and Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Harvard University, Zombieland, Movies, Entertainment

WLS

An arrest has been made in the hit-and-run death of a Wilmette woman...

An arrest has been made in the hit-and-run death of a Wilmette woman who was a student at Johns Hopkins University.

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