Johns Hopkins University News

Caesar Sant is a four-year-old child prodigy with a gift for playing the violin .

In a series of lab experiments designed to unravel the workings of a key enzyme widely considered a possible trigger of rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that in the most severe cases of the disease, the immune system makes a unique subset of antibodies that have a disease-promoting role.

Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University 's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular Science, on the airwaves of NPR and in books.

A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies , said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward ... (more)

People that are interested in losing weight often go to extremes or follow fad weight loss diets that ultimately fail to provide them with the results they desire.

As college graduates head into the real world, even many who majored in science, math, engineering and technology are having a hard time Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM crisis.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unraveled the molecular foundations of cocaine's effects on the brain, and identified a compound that blocks cravings for the drug in cocaine-addicted mice.

A section of West University Parkway will be closed due to Johns Hopkins University's commencement ceremony.

University Pkwy will be CLOSED BOTH WAYS between 39th Street and Canterbury Road TODAY from 6 am until 4 pm because of commencement exercises at Johns Hopkins University.

Women in their 40s didn't cut back on mammograms during 2010, the year after a government-backed panel said annual breast cancer screening should be optional for them, says a new study.

In a recent summit on human trafficking at Johns Hopkins University, kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart made some surprising remarks about why victims of rape may not try to escape their captors.

Rewards ranging from lottery tickets and gas cards to a paid day-off work could lure more blood donors and ease chronic shortages of blood for transfusions, an international study led by Canadian researchers suggests.

Understanding even the basics of how the brain learns -- how people perceive, process and remember information -- can help teachers and students successfully meet the requirements of the Common Core State Standards .

The epigenetic modifications, which alter the way genes function without changing the underlying DNA sequence, can apparently be detected in the blood of pregnant women during any trimester, potentially providing a simple way to foretell depression in the weeks after giving birth, and an opportunity to intervene before symptoms become debilitating.

Global central banking has become more complicated than ever. Jessica Einhorn , resident at The Rock Creek Group in Washington and former dean of Johns Hopkins University 's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, finds the Shakespearean undertones in a poem breaking down the situation.

Paintings by high school student Kayla Cunningham won first place in the high school art category.

For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs.

A new study identifies a potential remedy for cocaine addiction, already approved for use in humans, which could expedite clinical trials.

Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine online May 22, the Johns Hopkins team describes how it found the novel antibodies to peptidylarginine deiminase 4, or PAD4, in blood samples from people with aggressive inflammation and connective tissue damage.

Even though astronauts receive some general medical training in preparation for a stay aboard the ISS, most of them still aren't medical professionals by any means - and with the inherent difficulties of microgravity and the relatively noisy environment inside the Station, even a simple diagnostic task like listening to a heartbeat can be a ... (more)