General Idea This study investigates how social isolation affects brain function in mice, focusing on cognitive (thinking and memory) impairments. It also looks at how a substance called...

The HSIP program that I attended was also very valuable. The program gave me an unusual and broad exposure to the enormity and the diversity within medicine that I had not appreciated beforehand. It...

Back in November 2023, when I was researching various summer programs, I came across the Summer at Hopkins program and I was immediately drawn to it.  Johns Hopkins had always been one of my...

Before the advancements of DNA technology, insulin was taken from the pancreas of different animals, mostly cows and pigs. Although this method provided a source of insulin, there were several...

Understanding CRISPR CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. It functions as a form of scissors that can precisely cut into DNA sequences. It uses a type of RNA...

During the past few months, I started to wonder how the lives of real doctors are, so I decided to pick some books to read. Below are 2 of the books that I found interesting: When Breath Becomes Air...

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Joseph Chen, a dentist who works at Concourse Dental. He is my dentist as well, so I used this as a chance to get to know him better.  Here are a...

For this winter break, my family decided to go back to Taiwan for vacation. We only spent 13 days there but we were able to visit multiple tourist destinations and museums. One of the most interesting...

During the summer break, my family and I went to Switzerland. As we were heading toward Geneva, we passed Lausanne, a city on Lake Geneva, and decided to visit the Museé de la Main (Hand Museum) a...