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Fed interventions during financial crisis actually worked, study finds
Contrary to popular belief, the Federal Reserve's effort to encourage banks' lending during the recent financial crisis by providing them short-term loans worked — and, in fact, worked quite well — a...
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Josh Whitman named Washington University's new athletics director
Whitman Josh Whitman has been named the John M. Schael Director of Athletics at Washington University in St. Louis, announced H. Holden Thorp, PhD, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic...
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Lingering problem found in gut microbe communities of malnourished children
Rabiul Hasan, Intl Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease ResearchA Bangladeshi mother holds her malnourished child. In a study of healthy and malnourished young children in Bangladesh, a team of researchers...
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Celebrating our Women of Achievement
courtesy of women of AchievementIda Early (left) and Virginia Braxs were honored in May as 2014 St. Louis Women of Achievement. Two notable women from the Washington University in St. Louis community...
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Dormant viruses re-emerge in patients with lingering sepsis, signaling immune...
Robert BostonRichard Hotchkiss, MD, and Gregory Storch, MD, have shown that when sepsis, a life-threatening infection, lingers for more than several days, viruses that typically lie dormant in the body...
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Get up! New research shows standing meetings improve creativity and teamwork
Chairs provide great support during long meetings, but they may also be holding us back. Standing during meetings boosts the excitement around creative group processes and reduces people's tendencies...
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How incentive gaming may have played a role in the VA wait time controversy
According to a recent CNN report, the FBI has opened a criminal investigation of the Veterans Affairs Department. Among other allegations, an internal audit of the department revealed that supervisors...
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Severe scoliosis linked to rare mutations
Matthew DobbsChildren with rare mutations in two genes are about four times more likely to develop severe scoliosis than their peers with normal versions of the genes, researchers have learned....
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As the heat of summer settles on St. Louis, here’s a gust of cold air from...
1 | 2 | 3Jan. 13, 2014: After 30 hours of flying and running around airports, I made it to Christchurch, New Zealand, the jumping-off point for much of the U.S. Antarctic Program. McMurdo Station,...
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Humans have been changing Chinese environment for 3,000 years
Known as the “cradle of Chinese civilization,” the Yellow River was the birthplace of the prosperous northern Chinese civilizations in early Chinese history. However, the Yellow River is also referred...
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Jennifer Lodge appointed vice chancellor for research
LodgeJennifer K. Lodge, PhD ('88), associate dean for research and professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed vice chancellor for...
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In military personnel, no difference between blast- and nonblast-related...
U.S. Department of DefenseU.S. service members transport an injured Marine to a Black Hawk helicopter for medical evacuation in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2012. A new study of traumatic brain...
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Genetic find shows racial differences a factor in mortality in heart attack...
Robert BostonCardiologist Sharon Cresci, MD, led a genetic study showing that racial differences account for a higher risk of mortality in some patients taking clopidogrel (Plavix) after a heart...
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How repeatable is evolutionary history?
Genevieve Hay Evolutionary biologist Ken Olsen and Cynthia Vigueira, then a postdoctoral associate in the Olsen lab, examine white clover in the Washington University greenhouse. One morph of this...
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PARC wins renewed funding for photosynthetic research
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosBob Blankenship, director of PARC and the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, announcing at an all-hands...
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Fatal cellular malfunction identified in Huntington's disease
Robert BostonHiroko Yano, PhD, right, led a team of researchers that learned how the fatal inherited disorder Huntington's disease kills brain cells. Co-author Albert Kim also is pictured.Researchers...
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How repeatable is evolutionary history?
Genevieve Hay Evolutionary biologist Ken Olsen and Cynthia Vigueira, then a postdoctoral associate in the Olsen lab, examine white clover in the Washington University greenhouse. One morph of this...
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Parents of children with autism often have autistic traits
Studying children with autism and their parents, researchers have found that when a child has autism, his or her parents are more likely to have autistic traits than parents who don’t have a child with...
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Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains, study suggests
A. MelinA capuchin monkey of the Cebus variety dines on a bright green katydid grasshopper. A steady diet of abundant ripe fruit and leaf-crawling insects may explain why Cebus can't hold a stick to...
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Researchers hone in on way to predict aggressiveness of oral cancer
Robert BostonRavindra Uppaluri (right) led a team that developed a preliminary diagnostic test that identifies aggressive oral tumors. Michael D. Onken (left) and Ashley E. Winkler are co-authors of...
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