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Team to create framework for evaluating AI-based medical imaging
Artificial intelligence (AI) is showing promise in multiple medical imaging applications. Yet rigorous evaluation of these methods is important before they are introduced into clinical practice. A...
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$12.2 million to fund new Conte Center to study neurosteroids
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis a five-year, $12.2 million grant to create a center aimed at advancing research into...
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The new-new kids on the block: hybrid lizards
There are many different kinds of anoles, but they tend not to mix. Females recognize the colorful, extendable neck flap of an amorous male of the same species, or the pattern of his head-bobbing...
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Islands are cauldrons of evolution
Islands are hot spots of evolutionary adaptation that can also advantage species returning to the mainland, according to a study published the week of Oct. 11 in the Proceedings of the National...
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Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a chemical compound that interferes with a key feature of many viruses that allows the viruses to invade human cells....
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Stellar fossils in meteorites point to distant stars
Some pristine meteorites contain a record of the original building blocks of the solar system, including grains that formed in ancient stars that died before the sun formed. One of the biggest...
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CRE² launches podcast
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE²) at Washington University in St. Louis has launched a new podcast, “Everywhere with CRE².” The podcast plans to explore research from...
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Common respiratory virus manipulates immune genes to protect itself
Nearly everyone gets infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) repeatedly over the course of a lifetime, starting in childhood. Most times, people fight off the virus handily and only end up...
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Tennessee Williams vs. St. Louis
Can you ever escape your past? Tennessee Williams spent a lifetime trying. His years in New York, New Orleans and Key West are the stuff of literary legend. But it was St. Louis where Williams lived...
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Bucking the trend
In 1922, art historian Josef Stryzgowski warned an audience at Boston’s Lowell Institute of the impending “crisis in the humanities.” Nearly a century later, Stryzgowski’s theme remains a staple of...
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For 50 years, mass incarceration has hurt American families. Here’s how to...
For nearly 50 years, the incarceration rate in the U.S. has grown at an exponential rate. Today, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. Incarceration is especially common in poor...
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WashU introduces telehealth services for students
In an effort to further support student mental health, Washington University in St. Louis is introducing TimelyCare, a service of TimelyMD, a leading telehealth company specializing in higher...
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McKay named vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives
Mary McKay, the Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed vice provost of interdisciplinary initiatives in the Office...
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Considering others’ perspectives can prevent unfavorable outcomes
Everyday life comes with its own set of inconveniences: traffic jams, endless lines at the grocery store and extended customer service hold times with annoying background music playing. Wouldn’t it be...
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A conversation with Admissions’ Ronné Turner
Grades. Co-curricular activities. Personal essays and videos. These are some of the factors that admissions officers at Washington University in St. Louis are continuing to evaluate as they build the...
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Emotional aspects of chronic pain isolated in brain circuitry
Negative emotional states and physical pain are intimately connected. Numerous people who suffer from chronic, persistent pain also deal with negative emotions and loss of motivation. Some even become...
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‘She Kills Monsters’
“If a hooded stranger approached me in real life, I would mace him.”– Agnes It’s 1995 in Ohio and Tilly Evans is a teenage Dungeon Master who dispatches goblin-like Kobalds with ease. But not even the...
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Drug helps sensory neurons regrow in the mouse central nervous system
A spinal cord injury damages the lines of communication between the body and brain, impeding the signals that drive movement and sensation. Injured motor and sensory neurons in the central nervous...
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Achilefu, Luby elected to National Academy of Medicine
Medical imaging scientist Samuel Achilefu and child psychiatrist Joan L. Luby, MD, both of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine,...
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Environmental injustice, population density and the spread of COVID-19 in...
During the “first wave” of COVID-19 in the United States, Rajan Chakrabarty, the Harold D. Jolley Career Development Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, learned that African...
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