The imminence and severity of the problems posed by the accelerating changes in the global climate are becoming increasingly evident. Heat waves are becoming more severe, droughts and downpours are becoming more intense, the Greenland Ice Sheet is shrinking and sea level is rising, and the increasing acidification of the oceans is threatening calcifying organisms. […]

continue reading.....

from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United Nations Foundation (UN Foundation) and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, released today “Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable,” the final report of the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. The report, prepared as input for the upcoming […]

continue reading.....

Hopkins-led study finds alarmingly high rates in sub-Saharan Africa
By Eric Vohr
Johns Hopkins Medicine
An international study led by Johns Hopkins suggests that the rate of HIV-associated dementia is so high in sub-Saharan Africa that HIV dementia may be among the most common forms of dementia in the world, along with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia from strokes.

continue reading.....

Clinical promise grows out of new twists on Marfan syndrome research
By Audrey Huang
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure reverses muscle wasting in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle degeneration in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The results are reported online […]

continue reading.....

Hopkins collaborators test a monitor to characterize Raynaud’s disease
By Kristi Marren
Applied Physics Laboratory
A small group of researchers at the Applied Physics Laboratory, in collaboration with physicians from the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center, developed and recently completed initial trials for a miniature device to help physicians characterize Raynaud’s disease and measure treatment effectiveness.

continue reading.....

The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University�
New findings could lead to improvements in prosthetic limbs, robots
By Lisa De Nike
Homewood
Scientists have long struggled to figure out how the brain guides the complex movement of our limbs, from the graceful leaps of ballerinas to the simple everyday act of picking up a cup of coffee. Using tools […]

continue reading.....

by Bruno Giussani
This is how little we know about the Earth and how it works: a team of scientists from NASA, Oxford, the Weizmann Institute, the University of Maryland, that of Sao Paulo and others have discovered what they call “a remarkable arrangement in nature”:

continue reading.....

By Jeff Ventura
Johns Hopkins Medicine
A drug commonly used to slow the loss of central vision has shown promise in stemming a common precursor of blindness in diabetics, which involves the same central light-sensitive area of the retina, Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute scientists report.

continue reading.....

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The smallest form of life known to science just got smaller.
Four million of a newly discovered microbe � assuming the discovery, reported yesterday in the journal Science, is confirmed � could fit into the period at the end of this sentence.

continue reading.....

By Jeff Ventura
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Kellie L.K. Tamashiro, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who studies obesity, is the recipient of one of 58 National Institutes of Health grants in support of young investigators with promising research. She was chosen from among almost 900 applicants in one round of a grant cycle that will see a total […]

continue reading.....