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A step toward personalized diabetes treatments
Researchers have produced insulin-secreting cells from stem cells derived from the skin of patients with type 1 diabetes. The cells (blue), made from stem cells, can secrete insulin (green) in response...
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Class Acts 2016: Go out and change the world
Each year, Washington University in St. Louis highlights our graduating seniors and graduate students who are changing the world through research, service and innovation. The 2016 Class Acts are:...
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What studying hand-washing is teaching about compliance
In a myriad of workplace settings, standard processes are key to a successful operation, ensuring efficiency and safety. For these processes to work, employees must comply. But what’s the best way to...
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Mouse models of Zika in pregnancy show how fetuses become infected
Two mouse models of Zika virus infection in pregnancy were developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this photo, Zika virus, marked with red, infects a mouse...
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Studying hot spots of antibiotic resistance
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/embargo/Bugs-El%20Sal%20Peru.mp3 Antibiotic-resistant bacteria most often are associated with hospitals and other health-care settings, but a new study indicates...
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Brain imaging links Alzheimer’s decline to tau protein
A study using a new PET imaging agent shows that measures of tau protein in the brain more closely track cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s disease compared with long-studied measures of amyloid...
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Cause and effect, or effect and cause?
Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious. A physicist would probably describe what is...
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Huntington’s Disease target of $4.5 million in NIH grants
Huntington’s Disease is a devastating, fatal, inherited disease that causes nerve cells in the brain to break down over time, and there is no cure. Rohit V. Pappu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of...
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New scholarship helps contract employees earn a college degree
Bon Appetit employee Angela Carter started Spelman College in Atlanta in 1980, back in the era of Wite-Out and microfiche. So when Washington University in St. Louis offered her a chance to attend...
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Persistent childhood asthma sets stage for COPD
Children with mild to moderate persistent asthma are at greater risk of developing chronic lung disease as young adults and, therefore, may require lifelong treatment even if their asthma symptoms...
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Using nighttime air chemistry to track ozone impact
It is well known that the dog days of summer in St. Louis are hot, humid and hazy. On the warmest of these days, the air arrives from the south, bringing with it high temperatures, moisture and natural...
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Mark Taylor appointed dean of Olin Business School
Taylor Mark Taylor, dean of Warwick Business School and professor of international finance at the University of Warwick, UK, has been appointed dean of the John M. Olin Business School at Washington...
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Squeezing out mountains, mathematically, on Jupiter’s moon Io
Mountains aren’t the first thing that hit you when you look at images of Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io. But once you absorb the fact that the moon is slathered in sulfurous lava erupted from 400 active...
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Research suggests new contributor to heart disease
Medical professionals have long known that the buildup of plaque in arteries can cause them to narrow and harden, potentially leading to a whole host of health problems — including heart attack, heart...
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Barch, Ley, Boime to be honored
Deanna Barch, a leading researcher on the role of cognition, emotion and brain function in illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression; and Timothy Ley, MD, an expert in cancer genomics and...
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How did cardinals get those bright red feathers?
A red factor canary, created by breeding a wild South American bird called the red siskin with the common yellow canary. (Photo: David Carroll) For many birds, just like for many people, red is the...
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Celebrating the Class of 2016
This morning, more than 2,900 Washington University in St. Louis undergraduate, graduate and professional students will enter Brookings Quadrangle as degree candidates and leave as graduates after...
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‘Find a way to get in the way,’ Lewis urges students
U.S. Congressman John Lewis urged the Class of 2016 to “find a way to get in the way.” (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) On May 20, 1961, John Lewis and his fellow Freedom Riders were...
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New era of scientific discovery being launched at Washington University
The north end of the Danforth Campus will begin a major transformation this summer. A new era of scientific discovery is being launched at Washington University in St. Louis that will transform...
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Powells commit $8 million to professorships in chemistry
The Powell Family (from left:) Landis, Mike and Tana. Mike and Tana Powell, who have been actively engaged at Washington University in St. Louis since their daughter Landis enrolled in the Arts &...
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