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‘Surfing attack’ hacks Siri, Google with ultrasonic waves
Ultrasonic waves don’t make a sound, but they can still activate Siri on your cellphone and have it make calls, take images or read the contents of a text to a stranger. All without the phone owner’s...
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Cancer survival disparities in minority children, adolescents greater for...
Racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents with cancer have a higher risk of death than non-Hispanic white children and adolescents, with evidence for larger disparities in survival for more...
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WashU Spaces: The Spartan Light Metal Products Makerspace
To tour the Spartan Light Metal Products Makerspace, hover over the image. (All photos: Joe Angeles/Washington University) The Spartan Light Metal Products Makerspace is not the first makerspace on...
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Revving up immune system may help treat eczema
Brian S. Kim, MD, examines eczema patient Casey Richards. Kim has found that boosting the number of natural killer cells in the blood is a possible treatment strategy for the skin condition and also...
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WashU Expert: Stakes could not be higher in Supreme Court abortion case
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on March 4 in June Medical Services LLC v. Russo, a case challenging Louisiana’s law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting...
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Fail Better: Andrew Bass
(Video by Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) Develop an open-source nuclear detection system. That was the charge from the U.S. Department of Defense to members of its new internship program, the...
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WashU Counts: campus prepares for 2020 census
The 2020 U.S. census starts soon, and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement wants to make sure every student at Washington University in St. Louis is counted. A new website explains...
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New center promotes healthy workplaces
Construction workers are at high risk of injury. Worse, they risk losing their jobs if they take time off for repeated medical and physical therapy appointments. To keep working while coping with...
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Lori White appointed president of DePauw University
White Lori S. White, vice chancellor for student affairs and professor of practice in education at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed president of DePauw University, effective July...
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Birds of a feather better not together
Diversity plays a key role in maintaining the stability of plant and animal life in an area. But it’s difficult to scale up smaller experiments to understand how changes will impact larger ecosystems....
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Parents’ social isolation linked to their children’s health
Parents’ social isolation was linked to self-reported poorer health not only for themselves but also for their adolescent children, finds a study from the Brown School at Washington University in St....
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Radiation therapy for colon cancer works better when specific protein blocked
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis appear to have discovered a way to make radiation therapy for colorectal cancer more effective by inhibiting a protein found in...
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Immune cells play surprising role in heart, mouse study suggests
New research in mice suggests that certain immune cells may help guide fetal development of the heart and play a role in how the adult heart beats, according to new research at Washington University...
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Book explores ‘rugged individualism’ and its impact on inequality in America
“Pull yourself up by the bootstraps.” It’s an old adage about American resilience. But how does it impact poverty? A new book by a professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis...
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School of Medicine physicians, researchers tackle coronavirus
Soon after a novel coronavirus first appeared in China in late 2019, researchers, doctors and staff at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis began preparing for the possibility of an...
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Tate appointed provost of the University of South Carolina
Tate William F. Tate IV, dean of the Graduate School, vice provost for graduate education and the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University...
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Washington University to break ground on major neuroscience research hub
Washington University in St. Louis will begin construction in March on an 11-story, 609,000-square-foot neuroscience research building on the School of Medicine campus. The project initially will...
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Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6M to study weedy invader
Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close relatives of crops present a particular challenge to farmers because their physical similarities to the...
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Cancerous tumors, surrounding cells illuminated by new imaging agent
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new imaging agent that could let doctors identify not only multiple types of tumors but the surrounding normal cells...
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Hot time in the city: Urban lizards evolve heat tolerance
Faced with a gritty landscape of metal fences, concrete walls and asphalt pavement, city lizards in Puerto Rico rapidly and repeatedly evolved better tolerance for heat than their forest counterparts,...
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