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WashU Expert: The Electoral College
Supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris gather in Times Square in New York on Saturday, Nov. 7. (Photo: Shutterstock) The 2020 presidential election has finally...
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Making cancer cells more susceptible to dying
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their colleagues at Imperial College London have identified how a key protein in cancer cells changes shape to kick-start the...
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Pollution and pandemics: A dangerous mix
The United States may have set itself up for the spread of a pandemic without even knowing it. According to new research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis,...
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The vexing vax supply chain
The cold, hard fact is: Pfizer blazed a trail in creating a touted COVID-19 vaccine, but now it must help to equally pioneer an unprecedented way to distribute the drug across the United States and the...
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Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients
In a preliminary study of COVID-19 patients with mild-to-moderate disease who were attempting to recover in their homes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found...
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Study: Respiratory failure in COVID-19 usually not driven by cytokine storm
The turning point for people with COVID-19 typically comes in the second week of symptoms. As most people begin to recover, a few others find it increasingly difficult to breathe and wind up in the...
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Recruiting during a pandemic
The Class of 2025 at Washington University in St. Louis will be talented, driven and diverse — of this Ronné Turner, vice provost for admissions and financial aid, is certain. But the hard work of...
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Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors
Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory has been working to create sensors that can run on the least amount of energy. His lab has been so successful at building smaller and more efficient sensors, that...
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Widening income gap means less grocery variety for all
Even before COVID-19 and resulting shutdowns created gridlock for some global supply chains, the assortment at many neighborhood supermarkets was dwindling. The cause was not a lack of supply, though,...
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Lethal brain infections in mice thwarted by decoy molecule
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a molecule that protects mice from brain infections caused by Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), a...
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Solving for nuclear structure in light nuclei
In nuclei, all the fundamental forces of nature are at play. The dense region at the center of an atom — where the protons and neutrons are found — is a place where scientists can test their...
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Young people with disabilities focus of COVID-19 testing grant
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a two-year $5 million grant to offer 50,000 saliva tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to students, teachers and staff in...
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Davis stepping down as vice provost for faculty affairs and diversity
Adrienne D. Davis, vice provost for faculty affairs and diversity and the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, is stepping down May 31 from her position in the...
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Innovative training program boosts expertise in putting cancer research into...
Cancer is the second leading cause of death overall in the United States. While university-based research is yielding an abundance of new discoveries related to cancer treatment, research findings...
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Adolescent girls at high risk of violence in humanitarian settings
A 10-year-old girl was living in a small village in southeastern Sierra Leone during the country’s decade-long civil war when the rebels arrived. “They said they were going to take the girls and boys,”...
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Three Washington University scholars were Rhodes finalists
Two Washington University in St. Louis students and a recent alumnus were finalists for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. They are: Christopher Taylor Brown, 23, a graduate student studying...
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Secrets of the ‘lost crops’ revealed where bison roam
Blame it on the bison. If not for the wooly, boulder-sized beasts that once roamed North America in vast herds, ancient people might have looked past the little barley that grew under those thundering...
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COVID-19 cases could nearly double before Biden takes office
President-elect Joe Biden has signaled that fighting the COVID-19 pandemic will be an immediate priority for his administration. He recently announced a coronavirus advisory board of infectious disease...
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Stronger memories can help us make sense of future changes
Memory is as much about the future as it is the past. Whether experiencing something new, or something we’ve experienced a hundred times, people use memories of the past to navigate subsequent...
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AAAS names 7 Washington University faculty as 2020 fellows
Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 489 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific...
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