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Study urges aggressive treatment for sepsis
As a resident in emergency medicine nearly two decades ago, Tiffany M. Osborn, MD, became determined to prevent people from dying of sepsis, an unruly, fast-acting, potentially fatal condition. “I’d...
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Anne and John McDonnell receive Harris award
The St. Louis community has benefited greatly by the good works of the late Jane and Whitney Harris. When Jane died in 1999, she left a bequest to establish the annual Jane and Whitney Harris St....
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What a locust’s nose taught engineers about monkeys’ ears
Is there an opposite for the smell of a rose? Is silence simply the absence of sound? The results of a recent study by a team of biomedical engineers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science...
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Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed...
Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some control over their hands, according to a new study from Washington University...
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Drug believed to reduce postoperative pain and delirium does neither
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Ket-Lancet%20.mp3 To blunt postoperative pain and reduce the need for opioid drugs following surgery, anesthesiologists often give patients low doses of...
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Statement from Chancellor Wrighton regarding President Trump’s decision to...
On behalf of the Washington University in St. Louis community, I wish to communicate our disappointment that President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the landmark...
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Washington University selected for $1 million HHMI Inclusive Excellence...
Washington University in St. Louis is one of 24 schools selected to receive $1 million grants as part of a new HHMI initiative to help colleges and universities foster success in science for all...
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A better look at the lungs
The National Institutes of Health awarded a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis a four-year, $1.7 million grant to attempt to develop a new way to image airflow in lungs. If such...
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Type of sugar may treat atherosclerosis, mouse study shows
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/BR-trehalose%20.mp3 Researchers have long sought ways to harness the body’s immune system to treat disease, especially cancer. Now, scientists have found...
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Eggs significantly increase growth in young children
Eggs significantly increased growth in young children and reduced their stunting by 47 percent, finds a new study from a leading child-nutrition expert at the Brown School at Washington University in...
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Experiment designed by Washington University engineer launched on SpaceX
An experiment designed by an engineering team at Washington University in St. Louis soon will be performed in space. The experiment, called Flame Design, was on board a SpaceX Dragon rocket that...
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Brownson receives $2.9 million grant to boost physical activity in rural...
Ross Brownson, the Bernard Becker Professor and director of the Prevent Research Center at the Brown School, has been awarded a $2.9 million grant from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer...
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$10 million gift to benefit Center for Genome Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $10 million gift from the Harry Edison Foundation to support the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology. The gift is from...
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Makeup of vaginal microbiome linked to preterm birth
More than 10 percent of babies in the United States are born prematurely, yet very little is know about the underlying causes. Vaginal infections long have been thought to be related to preterm birth,...
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UTI treatment reduces E. coli, may offer alternative to antibiotics
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections, and they tend to come back again and again, even when treated. Most UTIs are caused by E. coli that live in the gut and spread to...
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Shaking Schrödinger’s cat
You’ve probably heard about Schrödinger’s cat, which famously is trapped in a box with a mechanism that is activated if a radioactive atom decays, releasing radiation. The act of looking in the box...
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Woofter to lead architecture, landscape architecture and urban design programs
Heather Woofter, co-director of the St. Louis-based firm Axi:Ome llc, has been promoted to director of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, both part of...
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Birds that babysit
Siberian jays are not cooperative breeders but they have taken what new research suggests is the first step toward cooperation: living in family groups. The addition of this intermediate step may...
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$10 million DNA sequencing effort aims to shed light on lung diseases
Washington University’s McDonnell Genome Institute has received $10 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to sequence the DNA of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, in...
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Alum investigates Clayton’s lost black neighborhood
How did Clayton become Clayton? Emma Riley, proud graduate of Clayton High School and a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, never thought to ask that question until the unrest in...
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