15 emerging technologies that could reduce global catastrophic biological risks

11-Oct-2018 - Strategic investment in 15 promising technologies could help make the world better prepared and equipped to prevent future infectious disease outbreaks from becoming catastrophic events. This subset of emerging technologies and their potential application are the focus of a new report, ...

Computers outperform lab rats in detecting toxic chemicals

19-Feb-2018 - UL, the science safety company, and Johns Hopkins University have embarked on joint research that has resulted in findings that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is superior in finding toxic substances to traditional animal testing. Beyond being more effective, UL's Cheminformatics REACHAcross™ ...

Public health researchers map world's 'chemical landscape'

15-Feb-2016 - Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have created a map of the world's chemical landscape, a catalogue of 10,000 chemicals for which there is available safety data that they say can predict the toxicity of many of the 90,000 or more other substances in consumer ...

Agilent Technologies and Johns Hopkins University to Research Toxicity Pathways for Embryonic Brain Development

20-Aug-2010 - Agilent Technologies Inc. and the Agilent Foundation announced that Dr. Thomas Hartung has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of his research for the use of toxicity pathways to predict developmental neurotoxicity. This work could help identify possible contributions of ...

Scientists map epigenetic changes during blood cell differentiation

Potential application for stem cell therapies

17-Aug-2010 - Having charted the occurrence of a common chemical change that takes place while stem cells decide their fates and progress from precursor to progeny, a Johns Hopkins-led team of scientists has produced the first-ever epigenetic landscape map for tissue differentiation. The details of this ...

Scientists Identify DNA That May Contribute to Each Person's Uniqueness

11-Aug-2010 - Building on a tool that they developed in yeast four years ago, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine scanned the human genome and discovered what they believe is the reason people have such a variety of physical traits and disease risks. In a report published in Cell, ...

Biomarkers help predict prostate cancer progression

21-Apr-2010 - Researchers at Johns Hopkins have evaluated a simple, more specific blood test that identifies patients undergoing proactive surveillance for low-grade, low-stage, non-palpable prostate cancer who would eventually require treatment. These results, presented at the American Association for Cancer ...

Acne drug prevents HIV breakout

23-Mar-2010 - Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating. The drug, minocycline, likely ...

Before or after birth, gene linked to mental health has different effects

Mouse study links timing of expression to various abnormalities

08-Jan-2010 - Scientists have long eyed mutations in a gene known as DISC1 as a possible contributor to schizophrenia and mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder. Now, new research led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that perturbing this gene during prenatal periods, postnatal periods ...

Biodegradable particles can bypass mucus, release drugs over time

06-Jan-2010 - Johns Hopkins University researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body's sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo. The researchers say these nanoparticles, which degrade over time into harmless ...