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Online database aims to collect, organize research on cancer mutations
The body of knowledge on cancer genomics is massive and ever-expanding. But this wealth of potentially critical information is far less likely to be of help to patients if it is inaccessible to the...
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Linnenbringer appointed to advisory group
Linnenbringer Erin Linnenbringer, an instructor in surgery for the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed to a five-year term on...
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‘Mini-guts’ offer clues to pediatric GI illness
Using immature stem cells to create a miniature model of the gut in the laboratory, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh have...
View ArticleEarly signs of anxiety, depression may be evident in newborns
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Rogers%20rs-FC%20.mp3 Early predictors of anxiety and depression may be evident in the brain even at birth, suggests a study at Washington University...
View ArticleWashington People: Audrey Odom John
Audrey R. Odom John is the mother to a boy, a girl and, over the years, hundreds of baby malaria parasites. Scientifically named Plasmodium falciparum, malaria parasites in their infancy “need to be...
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MD/PhD student honored at international engineering conference
Linderman A paper authored by an MD/PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis recently took first prize at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering...
View Article$4 million funds study of sickle cell disease in teens, adults
Over the past few decades, therapies for sickle cell disease have shifted this inherited blood disorder from its status as a fatal pediatric disease to a serious but manageable condition. But with the...
View ArticleDrug combination effective against chikungunya arthritis in mice
Combining a drug for rheumatoid arthritis with one that targets the chikungunya virus can eliminate the signs of chikungunya arthritis in mice in the disease’s earliest stage, according to researchers...
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WashU Expert: Advice to Trump Administration
Gautam Dantas is associate professor of molecular microbiology and of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and associate professor of biomedical engineering...
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Powderly named president of Infectious Disease Society
Powderly William G. Powderly, MD, co-director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named president of the Infectious Diseases...
View ArticleEffort to improve radiation therapy for veterans receives nearly $4 million
In a national effort to improve and standardize radiation therapy for U.S. veterans with cancer, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has contracted with Washington University School of Medicine in...
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NICU study highlights importance of sound
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/NICU%20noise%20.mp3 Premature babies often spend the first several weeks of life in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), where, ideally, they are...
View ArticleWashU Expert: Advice to keep the vulnerable insured
Mary Politi, associate professor in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is a clinical psychologist with research and expertise in policy, health care and...
View ArticleBrain network connections may underlie social behavior linked to autism
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/IJA%20brain%20scan%20.mp3 Evaluating the strength of connections in the brain is one avenue researchers have been exploring to help identify children at...
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Better than a pill
A twisted ankle, broken hip or torn knee cartilage are all common injuries that can have medical ramifications long after the initial incident that causes them. Associated pain, inflammation, joint...
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Gehlert inducted as president of social work organization
Gehlert Sarah Gehlert, the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was inducted Jan. 13 as president of the American Academy...
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WashU Experts: The First 100 Days
From left, presidential candidate Donald Trump greets Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, his wife, Risa Zwerling Wrighton, Student Union President Kenneth Sng and Graduate Professional Council President...
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Babcock named VP of health-care epidemiology group
Babcock Hilary M. Babcock, MD, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named vice president of the...
View ArticleSiteman survivor symposium March 2
The Siteman Cancer Center is holding a Spring Symposium on Survivorship from noon to 4:30 p.m. March 2 on the Medical Campus. The free event aims to encourage collaboration on cancer survivorship...
View ArticleThree questions with Gautam Dantas
More than any other discovery in the modern era, antibiotics have changed the world. Once-deadly infections are easily treatable, surgeries are safer, and other life-saving treatments — such as...
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