Biomedical Odyssey

Building a family is always challenging, but for many, getting the process started can be the most difficult step. In the United States, approximately 20% of women of child-bearing age are infert...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/04/putting-a-freeze-on-ivf/

What do you imagine when you hear the word “hospital”? Chances are, you think of the classical white and sterile halls often depicted in medical dramas – a featureless environment that is n...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/04/medical-michelangelo-how-hospital-artwork-and-design-choices-can-impact-patient-outcomes/

When I first came to Baltimore for my Ph.D., I was over the moon with excitement to try all the various foods a big city has to offer. As a southerner, my gastronomic options had been limited to ...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/04/how-to-eat-delicious-food-on-a-budget/

Guest blogger Katie Pham is a neuroscience Ph.D. student interested in visual processing and memory research. She was born in Hanoi and raised in Northern California. Outside of lab, she enjoys s...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/04/what-birds-in-love-teach-us-about-how-the-brain-processes-competing-motivations/

Since the publication of Dune in 1965, Frank Herbert’s sci-fi saga has been celebrated for its intricate world building and insightful exploration of societal issues. While often lauded for its...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/03/unveiling-the-dangers-of-ai-through-dunes-insights/

What happens to us as we get older? In 1958, this deceptively simple question led Nathan Shock, then the head of gerontology at the National Institutes of Health, to create the Baltimore Longitud...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/03/age-of-enlightenment/

If you have been on social media lately, you might be aware of North Carolina’s newest celebrity: Charlotte, a stingray that miraculously became pregnant in an aquarium tank with no male stingr...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/03/you-are-not-the-father-how-parthenogenesis-can-explain-the-miraculous-pregnancy-of-a-lone-stingray/

“Michael hit me!” At 7 years old, that was the first sentence my older sister, Danielle, had ever spoken. Before, anything she said were one-word declarations of “juice” or “outside.”...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/03/stigma-on-the-spectrum/

The incorporation of machine learning into daily living has exponentially increased in recent years after the release of ChatGPT for public use. From generating digital artwork and creating perso...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/02/disability-care-and-artificial-intelligence/

The number of studies regarding how our genes work has been increasing exponentially since the Human Genome Project started more than 30 years ago. Researchers know that our DNA is more than just...

https://biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2024/02/gwas-the-key-to-your-health/