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Loneliness found to be high in public senior housing communities
Older adults living in public senior housing communities experience a large degree of loneliness, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Nevertheless, senior...
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Gene therapy method developed to target damaged kidney cells
Gene therapy has gained momentum in the past year, following the federal government’s approval of the first such treatments for inherited retinal diseases and hard-to-treat leukemia. Now, research led...
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Non-opioid drug relieves pain in mice, targets immune cells
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/embargo/DP%20Neuroscience%20.mp3 Faced with the epidemic of opioid addiction, researchers have been charged with finding other strategies to treat pain. Their...
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New patch boosts brightness in medical diagnostic tests
Fluorescence-based biosensing and bioimaging technologies are widely used in research and clinical settings to detect and image various biological species of interest. While fluorescence-based...
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‘From Start to Finnish’ July 15
The music began as a string quartet. It concluded with full orchestra. Finnish composer Jean Sibelius wrote the first version of his “Andante Festivo” in 1922 to celebrate the anniversary of a local...
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Hudson appointed to lead new Academy for Diversity and Inclusion
Hudson Nicole Hudson, deputy mayor for racial equity and priority initiatives for the City of St. Louis, has been appointed assistant vice chancellor for the newly created Academy for Diversity and...
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VIP neurons hold master key to jet lag response
Travel by airplane has opened the door to experiencing different cultures and exploring natural wonders. That is, if you can get past the jet lag. But what if you could take control of the brain’s...
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Report addresses national shortage of physician-scientist trainees
Many lifesaving advances in human health can be traced to physician-scientists, the professionals who treat patients while also conducting biomedical research. “They’re an essential national resource...
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Andrew Martin appointed 15th chancellor of Washington University
Andrew D. Martin, the 15th chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. (Photo:James Byard/Washington University) Andrew D. Martin, dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the...
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New ALS therapy in clinical trials
About 20,000 people in the United States are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The invariably fatal disease kills the nerve cells that control...
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Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air
In the future, plants will be able to create their own fertilizer. Farmers will no longer need to buy and spread fertilizer for their crops, and increased food production will benefit billions of...
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Decriminalizing pot doesn’t lead to increased use by young people
As a handful of states have legalized marijuana for recreational use, some others have taken less dramatic steps toward decriminalizing pot by reducing the legal penalties associated with marijuana...
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Perfectionism in young children may indicate OCD risk
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/embargo/Gilbert%20JAMA%20.mp3 Studying young children, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that kids who possess tendencies...
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Lowering hospitals’ Medicare costs proves difficult
A payment system that provides financial incentives for hospitals that reduce health-care costs for Medicare patients did not lower costs as intended, according to a new study led by Washington...
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Analysis of prostate tumors reveals clues to cancer’s aggressiveness
Using genetic sequencing, scientists have revealed the complete DNA makeup of more than 100 aggressive prostate tumors, pinpointing important genetic errors these deadly tumors have in common. The...
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Gephardt Institute receives gift to enhance Civic Scholars Program
As a first-year medical student at Cornell University, Jason Silberman, AB ’15, (back row, center) led Motivating Action Through Community Health Outreach, a program that educates children in East...
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Banner days for women in Olin’s MBA
The women of the MBA Class of 2017 went to the Olin Business School’s administrators, among them assistant dean Ruthie Pyles Stiffler, and asked: How can we help to attract even more women here? Then...
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Demon in the details of quantum thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is one of the most human of scientific enterprises, according to Kater Murch, associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. “It has to do...
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Warming alters predator-prey interactions in the Arctic
Wolf spiders are so abundant that they outweigh real wolves in the Alaskan Arctic by several orders of magnitude. Their sheer numbers make them one of the important predators on the tundra. They may...
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Cortex MetroLink Station to open July 31
A rendering of the new Cortex MetroLink station (Image courtesy of Metro) The Cortex Innovation Community and the surrounding neighborhoods will celebrate the grand opening of a new MetroLink Station...
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