Learning from eel's spinal cord
Anatomy guides creation of electrical implants for human injuries

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, an expert in electronics and robotics, is assisted in his spinal cord microchip project by doctoral students Francesco Tenore and Jacob Vogelstein.

In a collaboration that blends biology and robotics, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant that may someday help paralyzed people walk again.
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A growing world of adult ed
In 1876, the year the Johns Hopkins University accepted its first class of students, it also opened up its doors to nonmatriculated adults to take part in a series of public lecture courses. In essence, the concept of a Johns Hopkins education for part-time learners was born.
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Shark cartilage 'cure' shows dangers of pseudoscience
The rising popularity of shark cartilage extract as an anti-cancer treatment is a triumph of marketing and pseudoscience over reason, with a tragic fallout for both sharks and humans, according to a Johns Hopkins biologist writing in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer Research.
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