Development of gut microbes and gut immunity linked
Studying twins from birth through age 2, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that the gut’s immune system develops in sync with the gut’s tens of trillions of...
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Sandell honored by Osteoarthritis Research Society
Linda Sandell Linda J. Sandell, the Mildred B. Simon Professor or Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the...
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Brophy named to orthopaedic surgery board
Brophy Sports medicine specialist Robert H. Brophy, MD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected to the American Academy of...
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Gut microbes’ metabolite dampens proliferation of intestinal stem cells
Intestinal stem cells are among the most rapidly dividing cells in the body, busily creating new cells to replace the ones that are constantly being sloughed off. But unlike stem cells elsewhere in the...
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Guilak receives award from Osteoarthritis Research Society
Guilak Farshid Guilak, PhD, a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and director of research at Shriners Hospitals for Children-St. Louis, has received the Basic...
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Barch receives 2016 AWN mentor award
Barch Deanna Barch, chair of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences in Arts & Sciences and the Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, is the 2016...
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New clues to understanding autoimmune diseases
A person’s genetic makeup plays a role in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis that develop when the body is attacked by its own immune system. But little is known about how immune cells are...
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Probing proteins’ 3-D structures suggests existing drugs may work for many...
A properly formed protein is a bit like a sheet of paper folded into a piece of origami. Parts of proteins that are initially far away can end up right next to each other, making apparently distant...
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Obituary: Joseph R. Williamson, former professor of pathology, 84
Williamson Joseph R. Williamson, MD, a distinguished diabetes researcher and former professor of pathology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died June 9, 2016, in St. Louis...
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Obituary: Philip W. Majerus, professor emeritus of medicine, 79
Majerus Philip W. Majerus, MD, a renowned hematologist and professor emeritus of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died at his home in St. Louis on June 8, 2016, after...
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New insight into role of amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease
A new technique for measuring levels in the brain of amyloid beta, a key protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease, would help scientists design treatments to limit its accumulation. Carla Yuede,...
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Age, obesity, dopamine appear to influence preference for sweet foods
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/radio/files/Sweets-dopamine.mp3 As young people reach adulthood, their preferences for sweet foods typically decline. But for people with obesity, new research...
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Pregnant women’s high-fat, high-sugar diets may affect future generations
A mouse study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that a pregnant mother’s high-fat, high-sugar diet may have consequences for later generations. The study...
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Medicine’s Siegel receives nuclear science award
Siegel Barry A. Siegel, MD, director of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2016 National...
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Washington People: Gregory Zipfel
Gregory Zipfel, MD, seen here during a neurosurgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has dedicated his career to treating diseases of the brain and nervous system, particularly abnormalities of the blood...
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Psychiatric help for families prevents continuing child abuse, neglect
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/radio/files/SYNCHRONY.mp3 A program aimed at helping abused and neglected children and their families is improving outcomes for kids and providing children with...
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$4 million grant expands major study to find Alzheimer’s prevention treatments
Dean DeMoe, a participant in the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU) study at Washington University, receives AV1451 — a radiopharmaceutical — from imaging technologist Holly...
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Memory loss caused by West Nile virus explained
Thousands of people live with memory loss and other long-term neurological problems as a result of infection with West Nile virus, which is spread by mosquitoes. Researchers at Washington University...
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Bear Cub Challenge awards $225,000 to five research teams
Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences and the Center for Drug Discovery together have...
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Preventing superbugs, infections in health-care settings
This micrograph depicts C. difficile bacteria, which can cause severe diarrhea, fever, intestinal pain and, in some cases, death. The infection can occur after prolonged antibiotic use. (Image: Janice...
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