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Unusual skin cancer linked to chronic allergy from metal orthopedic implant
S. Demehri and T. CunninghamActivated immune cells, shown in red and green, cluster at the site of an allergic skin rash. Scientists have learned that this inflammation can promote skin tumor formation...
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Damage to brain 'hubs' causes extensive impairment
Steven E. PetersenColors illustrate different networks of the brain. Researchers have discovered that injuries to a brain hub (top), where the boundaries of several networks come together, can be much...
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Wash U Expert: Ebola quarantines essential for public health
Recent revelations that Nancy Snyderman, MD, NBC News’ chief medical correspondent, violated a mandatory Ebola quarantine after returning from Africa, and that a Dallas health care worker infected with...
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'For the Sake of All' project kicks off community action series
“For the Sake of All" is an interdisciplinary project funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health to improve the health and well-being of African Americans in the St. Louis region. The project...
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NIH director, Sen. Roy Blunt discuss research funding in medical school visit
Robert Boston Larry J. Shapiro, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine (right), discusses research initiatives at the School of Medicine with (from left)...
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Many older people have mutations linked to leukemia, lymphoma in their blood...
Robert BostonLi Ding, PhD, and colleagues at Washington University's Genome Institute found that many older people have mutations linked to leukemia and lymphoma in their blood cells. At least 2...
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Human skin cells reprogrammed directly into brain cells
Daniel AbernathyAndrew Yoo, PhD, (from left) Michelle Richner, Matheus Victor and their colleagues described a way to convert human skin cells directly into medium spiny neurons, a type of brain cell...
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The right to privacy in a big data world
In the digital age in which we live, monitoring, security breaches and hacks of sensitive data are all too common. It has been argued that privacy has no place in this big data environment and anything...
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Three Egyptian mummies receive CT scans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gujkk_bqr5YUnder the wraps: Modern medicine meets Egyptian mummies. Video by Clark Bowen and Tom Malkowicz/WUSTL Video Services. For photos of the mummies' journey to...
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Heart drug may help treat ALS, mouse study shows
Nature NeuroscienceIn the top image, cells from a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused normal healthy brain cells (green) to die. But when scientists blocked an enzyme in the cells from...
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Genome sequenced of enterovirus D68 circulating in St. Louis
Robert BostonGregory Storch, MD, led a team that sequenced the genome of enterovirus D68 circulating in St. Louis in recent months. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...
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Himalayan Viagra fuels caterpillar fungus gold rush
Geoff ChildsYoung people are especially adept at harvesting yartsa gunba because of their keen eyesight. Overwhelmed by speculators trying to cash-in on a prized medicinal fungus known as Himalayan...
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Heart’s own immune cells can help it heal
The heart holds its own pool of immune cells capable of helping it heal after injury, according to new research in mice at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Most of the time when...
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Why scratching makes you itch more
Robert BostonWashington University researchers have found out why scratching an itch can make the itching worse.Turns out your mom was right: Scratching an itch only makes it worse. New research from...
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Novel tinnitus therapy helps patients cope with phantom noise
Robert BostonJay Piccirillo, MD, (left) led a study showing that patients with tinnitus, such as Jacqueline Richardson (right), may benefit from a new therapy combining computer-based cognitive...
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Election Day: The saddest day of the year?
Election Day is difficult for many political candidates. But it’s no picnic for their supporters either. Pierce A new study co-authored by a researcher at Washington University in St. Louis shows just...
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Washington University responds to Ebola threat
Centers for disease control and preventionShown is an image of the Ebola virus.Ebola has grabbed national headlines in recent weeks, but efforts at Washington University to safely coordinate a response...
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Seven internationally famous specks of dust
Rolf Wahl Olsen: www.rolfolsenastrophotography.comLooking toward the constellation Ophiuchus, a cloud of interstellar dust reflects the light of a bright star, painting the sky blue. Washington...
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New funding speeds identification of drugs to prevent Alzheimer’s
Robert BostonRandall Bateman, MD, explains the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network Trials Unit trial to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt and...
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New center aims to use gut microbiome discoveries to improve human nutrition
Robert BostonThe Center for Gut Microbiome and Nutrition Research will be led by Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, whose pioneering studies have illuminated the intimate relationship between diet, the mix of...
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