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A recipe for protein footprinting
Michael Gross, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences and of immunology and internal medicine at the School of Medicine, and his team are experts in footprinting proteins — that is, using...
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Novel form of Alzheimer’s protein found in spinal fluid indicates stage of...
A novel form of an Alzheimer’s protein found in the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord indicates what stage of the disease a person is in, and tracks with tangles of tau protein in the...
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Bateman, Diamond, Hultgren named to National Academy of Inventors
Neurologist Randall J. Bateman, MD, virologist and immunologist Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, and microbiologist Scott Hultgren — all faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St....
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Study finds fluorine as possible substitute for lithium in rechargeable...
With increased use of rechargeable batteries to power modern technology, particularly electric vehicles, researchers have been looking for alternative materials for lithium-ion in rechargeable...
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Examining schools’ lack of response to food insecurity during pandemic
As schools across the United States have moved to online learning or hybrid models due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis investigates the...
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Monitoring labor in pregnancy aim of grant to develop imaging technology
Monitoring uterine contractions during labor is critical for safeguarding maternal health and preventing preterm births, the world’s leading cause of death in children under age 5. Toward that end,...
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Toxin provides clues to long-term effects of diarrhea caused by E. coli
Toxin-producing E. coli bacteria (green) attach to human intestinal cells expressing the protein CEACAM6 (red). A study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has...
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Far from campus, but part of the community
Though far from campus, 916 international students are finding new ways to connect to the Washington University in St. Louis community. Faculty members have established special discussion sections and...
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New computational method validates images without ‘ground truth’
A realtor sends a prospective homebuyer a blurry photograph of a house taken from across the street. The homebuyer can compare it to the real thing — look at the picture, then look at the real house —...
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Richards pushes for privacy reform during Senate committee hearing appearance
Neil Richards, the Koch Distinguished Professor in the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, addressed a Dec. 9 hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,...
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Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars and other...
Thinking like Earthlings may have caused scientists to overlook the electrochemical effects of Martian dust storms. On Earth, dust particles are viewed mainly in terms of their physical effects, like...
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COVID-19 patients at higher risk of death, health problems than those with flu
Almost a year ago, COVID-19 began its global rampage, going on to infect about 69.5 million people and kill about 1.6 million as of early this month. From the beginning, most scientists have said that...
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Bayly named inaugural Lee Hunter Distinguished Professor
Philip V. Bayly, an innovative researcher of waves and oscillations in the mechanics of cells and biological tissues, has been named the inaugural Lee Hunter Distinguished Professor in the McKelvey...
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China probe returns with ‘treasure trove’ of moon rocks
The Chinese space agency announced Dec. 16 the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Jolliff Bradley L. Jolliff, the...
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Protein involved in removing Alzheimer’s buildup linked to circadian rhythm
Immune cells known as microglia (turquoise with red dots) surround a plaque of the Alzheimer’s protein amyloid (blue). The red dots indicate that the microglia are prepared to remove the potentially...
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Seeking to avoid ‘full lockdown,’ cells monitor ribosome collisions
Ribosomes are the machines in the cell that use instructions from mRNA to synthesize functional proteins. There are hundreds of thousands of ribosomes in each cell, and they mostly process their...
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Class Acts: Dani Wilder
Remote learning is hard. Especially for children. Even more so for children with a disability. “It’s too much to ask a child with an ADHD diagnosis to look at a screen for six hours and not get up,”...
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Historic, hopeful moment arrives on Medical Campus
As part of a historic effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care personnel at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and BJC HealthCare have begun receiving the first doses of a...
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We need economic rescue, and we need it now
After months of failed negotiations that left many Americans, businesses and a further weakening economy in the lurch, lawmakers are scrambling the week before Christmas 2020 to reach a deal on an...
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‘The Autonomous Future of Mobility’
Noel Mahaffey, “Night—Times Square,” from the portfolio “City-Scapes,” 1979. Screen print. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. A van gleams darkly in the seedy neon of 1970s Times Square. Taxis queue for...
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