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Rhythmic firing of nerve cells involved in body's movements
A new model for understanding how nerve cells in the brain control movement may help unlock the secrets of the motor cortex, a critical region that has long resisted scientists’ efforts to understand...
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The taste of love: what turns male fruit flies on
Vanessa Ruta A four-neuron circuit in the male fruit fly brain, called the sex circuit, transforms chemical scents into a physical response. A group of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis...
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Glides like balsa
whitney curtis (2) Above, Parkway South High School senior Will Mertz (center) explains the design of his team’s custom-built hand glider to Chris Kroeger, associate dean for students in the School of...
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Watching Venus move across the sun
Kevin Lowder (2) WUSTL neighbor Talmage Newton (above left) points out the path of Venus across the sun at the Crow Observatory June 5. The observatory was open to the public for a viewing of the...
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Schaal wins AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) honored Barbara Schaal, PhD, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington...
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Two faculty named fellows of American Academy of Microbiology
The American Academy of Microbiology has named two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members as fellows: Robert Blankenship, PhD, and John Heuser, MD. Heuser Heuser devised a way to freeze...
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City youth help St. Louis Zoo, WUSTL scientists study box turtles
Wikipedia Commons Missouri has two species of box turtle, the Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata ornata) shown here and the Three-toed box turtle shown below. Box turtles get their name from a...
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During the day, David L. Wright, PhD, is chairman of the Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis; at night, he is assistant director of Ambassadors of...
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Key part of plants’ rapid response system revealed
Images of several related proteins made at synchrotrons in the U.S. and France have allowed scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble,...
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Animal reservoir mystery solved
Collage of Wikimedia Commons images Whodunnit? The scientists had found squirrel-like DNA in ticks also carrying pathogen DNA but couldn’t tell which animal the tick had bitten. Was it (clockwise from...
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Foundational concept of ecology tested by experiment
Travis Mohrman/Tyson Research Center Male blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), is one of about 10 dragonfly species commonly seen buzzing the artificial pond systems at the Tyson Research Center,...
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$2 million to study role-switching cells in heart failure
Wikimedia Commons Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis recently won an NIH grant to study heart failure. Injury to the heart can lead to the proliferation of fibrotic tissue (white) that...
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Scientists read monkeys’ inner thoughts
Anyone who has looked at the jagged recording of the electrical activity of a single neuron in the brain must have wondered how any useful information could be extracted from such a frazzled signal....
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Many men with prostate cancer can avoid early surgery
New research suggests that many men with prostate cancer do not need immediate treatment, especially if they have low PSA scores or low-risk tumors that are unlikely to grow and spread. The...
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$125 million U.S.-India Initiative for Clean Energy drives expansion of...
White House photo by chuck kennedy President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India walk toward the East Room Nov. 24, 2009. It was during this state visit that they signed a memorandum of...
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Giant ice avalanches on Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in...
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute When the rimwall of Iapetus's Malun crater broke off and plunged more than five miles to the crater floor, it surged an astonishing 22 miles out from the base of the...
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Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds
WUSTL Image / Michael Cole New research suggests as much as 10 percent of individual variances in human intelligence can be predicted based on the strength of neural connections between the lateral...
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Free iPad app offers personalized advice for healthy living
Washington University School of MedicineZuum, a free iPad app, estimates disease risk and offers users a customized plan for living healthier lives.Health-care professionals have developed a free iPad...
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$3.2 million to develop battery management system for electric-car batteries
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Aug. 2 that a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries...
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Vaporizing the Earth
A. Leger et al./Icarus Scientists at Washington University have simulated the atmospheres of hot Earth-like planets, such as CoRoT-7b, shown here in an artist's conception. CoRoT-7b orbits so close...
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