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Hatchery course helps fuel student start-up companies
St. Louis is becoming widely recognized as a hub for entrepreneurship. Students at Washington University in St. Louis are taking advantage of the close proximity to great resources by starting their...
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Missing link in Parkinson’s disease found
Gerald W. Dorn II, MD A mouse heart, in gray, shows signs of heart failure because it is missing Mfn2, newly identified as a key molecule in the process that culls unhealthy mitochondria from cells....
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Women’s Society presents Switzer leadership awards, Danforth scholarship
Three already accomplished young women received awards recently from the Women’s Society of Washington University (WSWU). At the society’s annual membership meeting April 17, leaders announced the...
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2013 Spector Prize goes to two students
Each year, the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis awards a prize to a graduating senior in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 WUSTL graduate who...
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Brown School hosts 'Research Without Walls'
sid hastings (2)The Brown School held its second annual Research Without Walls student symposium April 25 in the hallways of Brown and Goldfarb halls on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in...
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Students' low-cost medical device wins inaugural Discovery Competition
A low-cost medical device targeted at improving world health has taken the top prize in Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering & Applied Science’s inaugural Discovery...
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Obituary: Susan E. Lanzendorf, director of IVF lab, 54
Susan E. Lanzendorf, PhD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the in vitro fertilization lab at Washington University, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, from complications of...
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Family Learning Center celebrates Week of the Young Child
mary butkus (3)The Washington University Family Learning Center held a picnic that parents could enjoy with their children to celebrate the Week of the Young Child. Due to cold weather April 19, the...
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Genomics to reshape endometrial cancer treatment
Robert BostonScientists at Washington University's Genome Institute have shown that adding genomics-based testing to the standard diagnostic workup for endometrial cancer could change the recommended...
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Scientists assemble genetic playbook for acute leukemia
Benjamin Raphael, Brown UniversityLines in the circos plot connect major genes involved in acute myeloid leukemia with patients whose leukemia cells have mutations in those genes. For an interactive...
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Unusual comparison nets new sleep loss marker
For years, Paul Shaw, PhD, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has used what he learns in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans. ShawShaw reverses...
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Elson elected fellow of arts and sciences academy
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis faculty member Elliot L. Elson, PhD, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elson, the Alumni Endowed Professor of...
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New perspective needed for role of major Alzheimer's gene
Scientists’ picture of how a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease harms the brain may have to be revised, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found....
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Gelberman, Wertsch to receive 2013 faculty achievement awards
Richard H. Gelberman, MD, a world-renowned expert in hand and wrist microsurgery, and James V. Wertsch, PhD, founding director of one of the most successful and innovative global scholarship programs...
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Discovery helps show how breast cancer spreads
Nature Cell BiologyCollagen fiber alignment at the tumor boundary (dashed lines) is predictive of prognosis. Fibers that tend to be perpendicular to the tumor surface (top right, for example) encourage...
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Early responses coming in on Next Generation Science Standards
The 26 states in blue partnered with a nonprofit educational group to write the Next Generation Science Standards. (Missouri applied to be a partner state but its application was still pending when the...
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Nerve stimulation for severe depression changes brain function
Copyright Brain Stimulation 2013, with permissionPET scans of patients successfully treated with vagus nerve stimulation show marked increases in cerebral glucose metabolism after 12 months of...
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Faulty memory finds a new culprit
Grandpa's stories often begin with the phrase, “Have I ever told you about the time…?” What he doesn’t know is that, yes, he has told you about that time, and he has told you many times before.Why is...
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Chatterjee receives this year's Isserman Prize
Chatterjee Arts & Sciences senior Nisha K. Chatterjee is this year’s winner of the Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman Prize.The award, given annually, recognizes a student who has made a significant...
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Moley elected president of gynecologic society
Kelle Moley, MD, the James P. Crane Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president of the Society of Gynecologic...
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