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‘Blink’ and you won’t miss amyloids
Tiny protein structures called amyloids are key to understanding certain devastating age-related diseases. Aggregates, or sticky clumped-up amyloids, form plaques in the brain, and are the main...
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Paul Tran wins Poetry Foundation award
Paul Tran, a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of five young poets awarded a $25,800 prize from the Poetry...
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Experimental drug shows promise as multiple sclerosis treatment
People with a progressive form of multiple sclerosis (MS) face a gradual decline of brain function that slowly strips away the ability to walk and may cause problems with speech and vision. Available...
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Faster than we thought: sulfurization of organic material
About 94 million years ago, something happened that led to an unusually high amount of organic material being preserved in oceans around the world. The burial of this organic carbon – over about a half...
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Campaign raises $591 million for scholarships
When Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University publicly launched in 2012, one of its goals was to raise $150 million for new scholarships and fellowships. That goal was quickly surpassed...
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Leading Together campaign ‘a remarkable achievement’
Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University ended June 30 with a record-breaking $3.378 billion in gifts and commitments. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Leading Together: The...
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The View From Here: Special Campaign Edition
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Marketing causes inequality, new book suggests
The dramatic rise of income inequality since 1970 has largely been caused by advances in marketing, says a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis. “Marketers have become better at creating...
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Machine learning used for helping farmers select optimal products suited for...
For years, farmers have been selecting products for their operation through the best advice available – seed guides, local agronomists, seed dealers, etc. The advancements in Artificial Intelligence...
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Adjaye to receive Washington University International Humanities Prize
The building tells a story. It begins underground, in somber galleries recounting slavery’s brutality. It spirals upward, through the Civil War and segregation, into sun-drenched spaces recounting the...
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Focused delivery for brain cancers
A person’s brainstem controls some of the body’s most important functions, including heart beat, respiration, blood pressure and swallowing. Tumor growth in this part of the brain is therefore twice as...
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New clues found to understanding relapse in breast cancer
A large genomic analysis has linked certain DNA mutations to a high risk of relapse in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, while other mutations were associated with better outcomes, according to...
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Scientists identify weak point in deadly eye melanoma
A natural plant compound exploits a newly identified Achilles’ heel in a cancer of the eye, uveal melanoma. In human cancer cells growing in the lab, the compound shuts down the overactive signaling...
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University continues efforts to improve response to sexual assault and...
Sexual assault and misconduct are serious, difficult issues on college and university campuses across the country, and Washington University in St. Louis is no exception. While emphasizing that it is...
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Parking updates, reminders for new academic year
Dedric Carter, vice chancellor for operations and technology transfer, and Gwen Bolden, director of Parking and Transportation Services, welcomed students, faculty and staff back to campus with...
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‘The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs’
All the colors of the rainbow mixed together produce not black nor white but flat, bureaucratic gray: the color of cubicles, of office furniture, of storm clouds and choppy seas. God gave you fire but...
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Lime arrives at Washington University
Construction on the east end of campus has made traveling from place to place a bit more difficult. However, Washington University in St. Louis is committed to offering a wide range of alternative...
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Buera installed as Cook Professor
Francisco Buera has been named the Sam B. Cook Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He was installed May 7 at a ceremony in Ridgley Hall’s Holmes Lounge. Buera’s research and...
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Noodling around
Steven Frankel is not hungry. He just wants to talk about noodles. Frankel is picturing a big bowl of noodles — and whether, and when, the noodles might loop back around on themselves — infinitely...
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Making sense, pictures of medical data
A woman goes to the doctor for a mammogram. The result comes back positive. “This doesn’t necessarily mean you have cancer, false positives are common,” her doctor might say. Maybe the patient is also...
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