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Alzheimer’s markers predict start of mental decline
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have helped identify many of the biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease that could potentially predict which patients will develop the...
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Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of events related to lunar exploration
NASASchmitt, shown here in his official NASA photograph taken in 1971, will visit Washington University in St. Louis the week of May 20 to participate in a round of activities having to do with lunar...
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Morris receives top Alzheimer’s Association honor
Washington University neurologist John C. Morris, MD, received the Alzheimer’s Association’s Medical and Scientific Award for 2013. MorrisMorris, the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman...
View ArticleVote for students' project in NSF competition
WUSTL’s Melanie Bauer, a graduate student in psychology, and Eric Hamilton, a graduate student in plant biology, both in Arts & Sciences, are competing in a National Science Foundation essay...
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Engineering professor gets Gates Foundation grant for work in global health
Washington University in St. Louis announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Tae Seok Moon, PhD, assistant...
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Better detection for elephantiasis worm infection
Washington University School of MedicineWashington University's Kurt Curtis, in Liberia, readies a new diagnostic test for lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne infection that can lead to enormously...
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Focus on renewable energy
Sid HastingsRobert Blankenship, PhD (second from right), professor of chemistry and biology in Arts & Sciences and director of WUSTL's Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), poses for a...
View ArticleMEDIA ADVISORY: Explore Engineering to give high school students a taste of...
Who: About 30 area high school rising juniors and seniors interested in science, technology, math and engineering What: Explore Engineering, a daylong event sponsored by Washington University School of...
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University will anchor new CORTEX building
Robert BostonA hard-hat tour May 16 highlighted construction at 4240 Duncan Ave., a former telephone factory being converted by Wexford Science & Technology into a laboratory and research...
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Gordon to be honored for microbiome studies
Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Robert Koch...
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Deadly infections cut in sickest hospital patients
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionIn hospital intensive care units, bathing patients daily with an antimicrobial soap and applying antibiotic ointment in the nose reduced by 44 percent...
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Singamaneni to develop new biosensors with NSF CAREER Award
Biomedical sensors using metal nanoparticles hold great promise for the early detection of disease. But the current class of sensors has little or no shelf life, and creating and using them is...
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Older adult clumsiness linked to brain changes
For many older adults, the aging process seems to go hand-in-hand with an annoying increase in clumsiness — difficulties dialing a phone, fumbling with keys in a lock or knocking over the occasional...
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Wrighton to speak in Denver June 13 on innovation and entrepreneurship
Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will speak in Denver June 13 about the critical role research universities play in creating positive economic growth.Mark S....
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Peters to receive Spirit of St. Louis Medal
David A. Peters, PhD, McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has been selected to David A. Peters receive the 2013 Spirit of St. Louis Medal from...
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Scientists map the wiring of the biological clock
This famous still of Harold Lloyd in the 1923 film Safety Last epitomizes the plight of modern human beings, equipped with biological clocks designed to adjust to gentle seasonal changes in daylight,...
View ArticleIS&T internship program a success, leader says
http://youtu.be/iudRgZ8fTCQPeople selected to complete an information technology internship program share their experiences and thoughts on the program’s success and on the importance of having a...
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High school students gets hands-on view of engineering
Joe Angeles (2)More than 30 local high school juniors and seniors were on campus June 6 for the third annual Explore Engineering day, sponsored by the School of Engineering & Applied Science. The...
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Mary-Dell Chilton earns World Food Prize for pioneering plant genetics...
Mary-Dell Chilton, PhD, who did pioneering work on plant genetics during the 1970s and early 1980s while on the biology faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of three recipients of the...
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Dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission
WikimediaSomewhere on Mars, the Red Planet? No, it’s somewhere in the Atacama Desert, the closest approximation on our planet to a Martian landscape.A film director looking for a location where a movie...
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