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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and the Washington University in St. Louis Athletic Complex is ready to welcome students, faculty and staff who are registered to vote in St. Louis County. Polls open...
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New insight into how brain neurons influence choices
When you are faced with a choice — say, whether to have ice cream or chocolate cake for dessert — sets of brain cells just above your eyes fire as you weigh your options. Animal studies have shown that...
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Local cooking preferences drove acceptance of new crop staples in prehistoric...
The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks — such as the technological choice to boil or steam grains, instead of grinding or processing them into flour — had continental-scale consequences for...
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Hydrogen bonds may be key to airborne dicamba
Dicamba has been the subject of lawsuits across the country, including here in Missouri where landowners contend the herbicide, when used by neighboring growers, has blown onto their property, killing...
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Cornea appears to resist infection from novel coronavirus
New findings from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest the eye’s cornea can resist infection from the novel coronavirus. Although the herpes simplex virus can...
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Board of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 2, several faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure or granted tenure, effective that day unless otherwise...
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Masks don’t just save lives, they also boost economy
The economy and coronavirus pandemic were two of the top issues for voters in the 2020 election, according to exit poll surveys. Notably, 52% of voters said controlling the pandemic was more important,...
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Newly discovered fossil documents small-scale evolutionary changes in an...
Males of the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus were thought to be substantially larger than females — much like the size differences seen in modern-day primates such as gorillas, orangutans...
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The historic 2020 election, and what’s next
After a 2020 pockmarked by a deadly pandemic, murder hornets, the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, national protests sparked by more citizens dying in the streets, an impeachment acquittal, a...
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WashU Expert: The Electoral College
Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris gather in Times Square in New York on Saturday, Nov. 7. (Photo: Shutterstock) The 2020 presidential election has finally...
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Making cancer cells more susceptible to dying
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their colleagues at Imperial College London have identified how a key protein in cancer cells changes shape to kick-start the...
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Pollution and pandemics: A dangerous mix
The United States may have set itself up for the spread of a pandemic without even knowing it. According to new research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis,...
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The vexing vax supply chain
The cold, hard fact is: Pfizer blazed a trail in creating a touted COVID-19 vaccine, but now it must help to equally pioneer an unprecedented way to distribute the drug across the United States and the...
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Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients
In a preliminary study of COVID-19 patients with mild-to-moderate disease who were attempting to recover in their homes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found...
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Study: Respiratory failure in COVID-19 usually not driven by cytokine storm
The turning point for people with COVID-19 typically comes in the second week of symptoms. As most people begin to recover, a few others find it increasingly difficult to breathe and wind up in the...
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Recruiting during a pandemic
The Class of 2025 at Washington University in St. Louis will be talented, driven and diverse — of this Ronné Turner, vice provost for admissions and financial aid, is certain. But the hard work of...
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Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors
Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory has been working to create sensors that can run on the least amount of energy. His lab has been so successful at building smaller and more efficient sensors, that...
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Widening income gap means less grocery variety for all
Even before COVID-19 and resulting shutdowns created gridlock for some global supply chains, the assortment at many neighborhood supermarkets was dwindling. The cause was not a lack of supply, though,...
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Lethal brain infections in mice thwarted by decoy molecule
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a molecule that protects mice from brain infections caused by Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), a...
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Solving for nuclear structure in light nuclei
In nuclei, all the fundamental forces of nature are at play. The dense region at the center of an atom — where the protons and neutrons are found — is a place where scientists can test their...
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