NIH support fosters diversity among PhD trainees

Posted On Monday, November 11, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Most PhD training programs in the biomedical sciences struggle to achieve a level of diversity that mirrors the racial and ethnic makeup of the U.S. population. Ultimately, this lack of diversity among today’s graduate students can hinder tomorrow’s scientific progress. That’s because researchers from different backgrounds bring a diversity of ideas ...

Nurturing may protect kids from brain changes linked to poverty

Posted On Sunday, November 3, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Growing up in poverty can have long-lasting, negative consequences for a child. But for poor children raised by parents who lack nurturing skills, the effects may be particularly worrisome, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Among children living in poverty, the researchers identified ...

Civitelli Named President of Bone, Mineral Society

Posted On Saturday, October 26, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Roberto Civitelli, MD, has been elected president of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), the world’s leading scientific organization for bone health research. “I am honored to serve as president of the ASBMR,” said Civitelli, the Sydney M. & Stella H. Schoenberg Professor of Medicine. “The organization continues ...

Mental Health Conditions Negatively Affect Social and Economic Opportunity

Posted On Saturday, October 19, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
A recent study revealed that adults in the City of St. Louis spend an average of 4.5 days a month in poor mental health, with St. Louis County not lagging far behind, at an average of 3 days a month. It’s an issue tackled head-on in the latest policy brief of ...

Pacific Ocean Temperature Influences Tornado Activity in U.S., MU Study Finds

Posted On Saturday, October 12, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Meteorologists often use information about warm and cold fronts to determine whether a tornado will occur in a particular area. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that the temperature of the Pacific Ocean could help scientists predict the type and location of tornado activity in the ...

Einstein Lecture in Mathematics to focus on social networks

Posted On Saturday, October 5, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, will deliver the American Mathematical Society’s 2013 Einstein Lecture Saturday, Oct. 19, in Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Kleinberg will speak on “Bursts, Cascades and Hot Spots: A Glimpse of Some Online Social Phenomena ...

Medical Startup Hatched at Washington University continues strong performance

Posted On Thursday, September 26, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen, May graduates of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis and co-founders of the med-tech startup Sparo Labs, have won the $150,000 CIMIT Student Technology Prize for Primary Care, bringing their total competition winnings to more than $275,000. The first ...

Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World

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Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...

Rare Gene Variant Linked to Macular Degeneration

Posted On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, has identified a gene mutation linked to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in ...

Altering mix of gut microbes prevents obesity, but diet remains key factor

Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
By Caroline Arbanas Working in mice transplanted with intestinal microbes from lean and obese twins, a new study shows that altering the microbial mix prevents mice destined for obesity from gaining weight and fat or developing related metabolic problems linked to insulin resistance. But there’s a caveat: Microbes associated with leanness can’t ...

Creating Plants That Make Their Own Fertilizer

Posted On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
Washington University biologists are undertaking an ambitious project to engineer tiny nitrogen-fixing devices within photosynthetic cells. By Diana Lutz Since the dawn of agriculture, people have exercised great ingenuity to pump more nitrogen into crop fields. Farmers have planted legumes and plowed the entire crop under, strewn night soil or manure on ...

Receptor May Aid Spread of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in Brain

Posted On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way that corrupted, disease-causing proteins spread in the brain, potentially contributing to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other brain-damaging disorders. The research identifies a specific type of receptor and suggests that blocking it may aid treatment of theses ...

Remembering to Remember Supported by Two Distinct Brain Processes

Posted On Monday, August 19, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
You plan on shopping for groceries later and you tell yourself that you have to remember to take the grocery bags with you when you leave the house. Lo and behold, you reach the check-out counter and you realize you’ve forgotten the bags. Remembering to remember – whether it’s grocery bags, ...

Administrative Law Expert Levin Testifies Before Congressional Committee

Posted On Monday, August 12, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Administrative law expert Ronald M. Levin, JD, recently was invited to testify before Congress on concerns about the proposed Regulatory Accountability Act. Levin, the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, has taught and written about administrative law for more than 30 years. He testified in ...

Speedier Scans Reveal New Distinctions in Resting and Active Brain

Posted On Sunday, August 4, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
A boost in the speed of brain scans is unveiling new insights into how brain regions work with each other in cooperative groups called networks. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Institute of Technology and Advanced Biomedical Imaging at the University of Chieti, Italy, used ...

D’Avignon wins 2013 American Chemical Society Award

Posted On Sunday, July 28, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
D’Avignon wins 2013 American Chemical Society Award Washington University in St. Louis chemist D André d’Avignon, who manages the university’s high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facility, has been named the winner of 2013 Saint Louis Award. The Saint Louis Award, sponsored by the Monsanto Company and administered by the Saint Louis section of the American Chemical Society, is ...

Urano named Schechter Professor of Medicine

Posted On Saturday, July 20, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Renowned diabetes researcher Fumihiko Urano, MD, PhD, is the new Samuel E. Schechter Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Urano’s research involves locating biomarkers that may lead to more effective treatments, or even a cure, for juvenile-onset diabetes, including the very severe form of the ...

Young physician scientists to benefit from Mallinckrodt grant

Posted On Saturday, July 13, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
Thanks to a grant from the St. Louis-based Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation, 21 physician scientist trainees in two clinical departments — Medicine and Pediatrics — at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will receive research support. Physician scientist trainees graduate with combined medical and doctoral degrees and usually pursue ...
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