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Board of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting May 5, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure or promoted with tenure, effective July 1. Appointment with Tenure...
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New thermostat setpoint policy rolls out
It’s a common complaint in office buildings across the country: Once summer hits and air conditioners crank up, many employees find themselves freezing, often stashing extra sweaters or blankets at...
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A spillway on Mars?
NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind. Those scenarios are...
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Detecting diluteness
Inside each and every living cell, there are miniscule structures called membraneless organelles. These tiny powerhouses use chemistry to cue the inner workings of a cell — movement, division and even...
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Legumes are fancy
Because plants can’t get up and run away, they’ve had to be clever instead. They are the chemists of the living world, producing hundreds of thousands of small molecules that they use as sunscreens, to...
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Washington University announces $20 million McDonnell Scholarship Challenge
Life Trustee John F. McDonnell has made a $20 million commitment toward scholarship support as part of the Leading Together campaign. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Chancellor Mark S....
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New parking system takes effect July 1
Washington University in St. Louis’ new parking and transportation management strategy is rolling out July 1. “Over the past year, a small and dedicated team has worked on developing a new parking plan...
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Fat makes cells fat
In his classic comedy routine, “A Place for your Stuff,” George Carlin argues that the whole point of life is to find an appropriately sized space for the things you own. What holds for people is also...
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Engineers examine chemo-mechanics of heart defect
Elastin and collagen serve as the body’s building blocks. They provide tensile strength and elasticity for a number of organs, muscles and tissues. Any genetic mutation short-circuiting their function...
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Keep your distance
If aliens sent an exploratory mission to Earth, one of the first things they’d notice — after the fluffy white clouds and blue oceans of our water world — would be the way vegetation grades from...
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Interrogating the archive
What does an archive preserve? How long does knowledge last? And just how much can the human mind discern? In “The Missouri River 38.81408088787352, -90.12370347726687 and 38.815604433618454,...
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New clues found to common respiratory virus
By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only mild cold symptoms. But people with weakened immune systems, such as infants and the...
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Siteman Cancer Center opens north St. Louis County location
Siteman Cancer Center will begin seeing patients July 1 at its newest satellite location, Christian Hospital in north St. Louis County. Siteman Cancer Center is based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and...
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Popular heartburn drugs linked to higher death risk
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/PPIs-death%20.mp3 Popular heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been linked to a variety of health problems, including serious kidney...
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Malaria drug protects fetuses from Zika infection
Devastating consequences of Zika virus infection are suffered in the womb, where the virus can cause brain damage and sometimes death. Studying pregnant mice, researchers at Washington University...
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Type 1 diabetes risk linked to intestinal viruses
Doctors can’t predict who will develop Type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease in which one’s own immune system destroys the cells needed to control blood-sugar levels, requiring daily insulin...
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Sleep, Alzheimer’s link explained
A good night’s sleep refreshes body and mind, but a poor night’s sleep can do just the opposite. A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Radboud University Medical Centre in...
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New book provides strategies for smart decarceration of America’s prisons
With an era of decarceration of America’s penal system quickly approaching, a Washington University in St. Louis expert and co-editor of a new book offers concrete strategies for ushering in a...
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Surgery for early prostate cancer may not save lives
A major 20-year study provides further evidence that prostate cancer surgery offers negligible benefits to many men with early-stage disease. In such men, who account for most cases of newly diagnosed...
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Vaccines protect fetuses from Zika infection, mouse study shows
Zika virus causes a mild, flu-like illness in most people, but to pregnant women the dangers are potentially much worse. The virus can reduce fetal growth, cause microcephaly, an abnormally small head...
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