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Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome
Apes in U.S. zoos host bacterial communities in their intestinal tracts that are more similar to those of people who eat a non-Western diet than to the gut makeup of their wild ape cousins, according...
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Achilefu named to biomedical engineering advisory council
Achilefu Samuel Achilefu, the Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected to serve on the National Advisory Council for...
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Medical Campus students mobilize to help health-care workers, community
As the novel coronavirus has accelerated its spread throughout the Midwest and across the U.S., scores of students on the Washington University Medical Campus have mobilized to support health-care...
View ArticleClinical trial launches to evaluate antimalarial drugs for COVID-19 treatment
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is launching a clinical trial for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The trial will investigate the effectiveness of...
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Research in most university labs moved from bench to internet
When Washington University Vice Chancellor for ResearchĀ Jennifer K. LodgeĀ first sounded the alarm about the disruptive impact COVID-19 likely would have on labs across the university, the research...
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Gronowski given clinical chemistry award
Gronowski Ann M. Gronowski, professor and vice chair of faculty affairs and development in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has...
View ArticleCOVID-19 survivors needed to donate blood plasma
Infectious diseases physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an expanded access program to give blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to critically ill patients...
View ArticleDiabetes reversed in mice with genetically edited stem cells derived from...
Using induced pluripotent stem cells produced from the skin of a patient with a rare, genetic form of insulin-dependent diabetes calledĀ Wolfram syndrome, researchers transformed the human stem cells...
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Aerosol researchers at McKelvey School of Engineering tackle novel coronavirus
Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are at the forefront of aerosol science. With ongoing research from as high as 250 miles above earth at the...
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Maker Task Force works to protect front-line health-care workers
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, a diverse team of makers from across Washington University in St. Louisā Danforth and Medical campuses, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and BJC HealthCare have come...
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University offers housing for front-line health workers, first responders
It all started with a call from the head of BJC HealthCare to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. Doctors and nurses needed somewhere to stay amid intense work caring for the sick. Could Washington University...
View ArticlePotential biomarker for autism identified in infants
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Stanford University have identified a biomarker in newborns that may signal autism spectrum disorder months or even years before...
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On the front lines in fight against COVID-19
As a worldwide pandemic washes over the St. Louis region, the Washington University Medical Campus is eerily quiet. Most visitors, students, staff and research faculty are no longer on campus. Limited...
View ArticleNew targets for childhood brain tumors identified
Children with the genetic condition neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) can develop brain and nerve tumors. If a tumor develops within the optic nerve, which connects the eye and the brain, the child may...
View ArticleObesity prevented in mice treated with gene-disabling nanoparticles
Disabling a gene in specific mouse cells, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have prevented mice from becoming obese, even after the animals had been fed a high-fat...
View ArticleCOVID-19 in-home monitoring program launched
People with COVID-19 who are seen by Washington University physicians or BJC Medical Group providers, but not sick enough to be hospitalized, can be enrolled in an in-home health monitoring program....
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Lang honored by physical therapy association
Lang Catherine Lang, professor of physical therapy, of neurology and of occupational therapy, and associate director of theĀ Movement Science ProgramĀ at Washington University School of Medicine in St....
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Gutmann receives Advocate of Hope award
Gutmann David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor and vice chair for research affairs in the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis,...
View ArticleStroke evaluations drop by nearly 40% during COVID-19 pandemic
The number of people evaluated for signs of stroke at U.S. hospitals has dropped by nearly 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study led by researchers from Washington University School of...
View ArticleFlies sleep when need arises to adapt to new situations
Flies that cannot take to the air respond by sleeping more as they learn to adapt to their flightlessness, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings,...
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