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Discovery may open door for treating fragile X carriers
Robert BostonWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researcher Azad Bonni, MD, PhD, has identified a potential target for treatments for people who have a mild version of the mutation...
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Rare dune plants thrive on disturbance
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Confronting the public health implications of gun violence
Here’s what the statistics tell us: There were 11,208 homicides and 21,175 suicides committed with firearms in the United States in 2013. Of the 275 murders reported last year in the St. Louis region,...
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Brown School's Pettus-Davis to lead research arm of new prisoner reentry...
Carrie Pettus-Davis, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been tapped to serve as executive director for the research initiative of a new public,...
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Eliot Society honors Brauers with Search Award
Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosChancellor Mark S. Wrighton (left) presents the 2015 Search Award to Stephen and Camilla Brauer at the annual William Greenleaf Eliot Society dinner.Longtime Washington...
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Faculty and staff screening of ‘The Hunting Ground’ set for May 6
Washington University in St. Louis will present a special screening of the documentary “The Hunting Ground” for faculty and staff at 3:15 p.m.Wednesday, May 6, in Room L006 of Seigle Hall. The event...
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Building a memory palace: World’s top memory athletes to compete May 2-3
https://youtu.be/eEL7LRHxBswA taste of the action from the 2014 Extreme Memory Tournament Two dozen of the world’s best memory athletes will compete this weekend at the 2nd Annual Extreme Memory...
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Partnership with student consulting group enhances WashU tech transfer,...
A student-led strategic consulting firm, The BALSA Group, is expanding the technology transfer capabilities of Washington University in St. Louis while broadening career opportunities for its members...
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Why investors should listen to short sellers (yes, short sellers)
https://youtu.be/qoJvcHfZJBgMatthew Ringgenberg, PhD, assistant professor of finance, discusses a new index that indicates short sales can provide powerful market return predictors. Short sellers...
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As the river rises: Cahokia’s emergence and decline linked to Mississippi...
David Kilper/WUSTL PhotosA diorama illustrating the late prehistoric Mississippian culture at Cahokia Mounds, a World Heritage site across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. New research suggests...
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Scientists find new link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s
Robert BostonShannon Macauley, PhD, and David Holtzman, MD, neurology researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have found a new link between Alzheimer's disease and...
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Washington University opens computer science course to Harris-Stowe State...
Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosProvost Holden Thorp, PhD (left), and Dwyane Smith, PhD, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Harris-Stowe State University, sign an agreement to create a...
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I-CARES announces 2015 funded research projects
The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the winners from its 2015 call for proposals.I-CARES supports a...
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Coming soon: First encounter with a new class of worlds
JHUAPL/SwRI/NASA The sun shines wanly through Pluto’s thin atmosphere, illuminating its mysterious layered ices. Since the New Horizons probe to Pluto was launched, scientists have come to understand...
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Rocks that glow in the dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nRSK8Vwwx0 There’s a small room in Rudolph Hall that most students walk right past without noticing. But when anyone finds it, they usually insist all their friends...
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Trial to study whether statins reduce strokes, heart attacks in HIV patients
aThe Washington University AIDS Clinical Trials Unit is the first in the nation to open a clinical trial evaluating whether statins reduce heart attacks and strokes in patients with human...
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IdealTap takes $25,000 prize in 2015 Discovery Competition
Burkhardt (left) and Meiners of the IdealTap team demonstrate their prototype for Discovery Competition judges April 24.IdealTap, a medical device that would make spinal taps easier and more...
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New technology may reduce deadly complication of bone marrow transplants
Riddell and Appelbaum, 2007Bone marrow transplants are a common treatment for leukemia. A potentially dangerous side effect called graft-versus-host disease occurs when donor T cells from the...
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Massively parallel biology students
Mary Butkus/WUSTL PhotosGEP staff member Wilson Leung (far left) working with junior Sarah Swiezy to find motifs that regulate gene expression or silencing by comparing the DNA of different fruit fly...
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New insight into inflammatory bowel disease may lead to better treatments
aWandy BeattyMarked by yellow tags, the tiny particles released by this bacterium may help initiate inflammatory bowel disease, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine...
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