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Breast milk linked to significant early brain growth in preemies
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/embargo/Breast%20milk-brain%20vol%20.mp3 Feeding premature babies mostly breast milk during the first month of life appears to spur more robust brain growth,...
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Researching the emotional toll of an earthquake
The dramatic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal one year ago left behind a landscape littered with crumbled homes, buildings and roads. While infrastructure can be rebuilt, the disaster may have a...
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American Medical Association to collaborate with IDEA Labs
IDEA Labs, a student-run bioengineering and design incubator started at Washington University in St. Louis, will expand its national reach through a partnership with the American Medical Association...
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Green rehab: Making century-old brick buildings sustainable
A six-percent upfront investment reduced energy consumption by 19 percent — and carbon emissions by 34 percent — in a pair of 100-year-old brick buildings. Add solar panels, and those numbers drop to...
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High-fructose diet during pregnancy may harm placenta, restrict fetal growth
A new study in mice and women by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that a high-fructose diet during pregnancy may harm the placenta and restrict fetal growth....
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Popular heartburn drugs may cause serious kidney damage
Prolonged use of drugs to treat heartburn, ulcers and acid reflux may lead to serious kidney damage, including kidney failure, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of...
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Newborn screening test developed for rare, deadly neurological disorder
Dried blood spots are used to screen newborns for a number of rare inherited conditions. Scientists have developed a new dried blood spot screening test for Niemann-Pick type C, a rare...
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Eliot Society members gather for annual gala
Larry J. Shapiro, MD (left), former dean of the School of Medicine, was honored with the Search Award at the 49th annual William Greenleaf Eliot Society dinner April 21. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton...
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Trustees meet, elect new board members and officers
At its spring meeting May 6, the Board of Trustees at Washington University in St. Louis elected six new members and re-elected eight members and its current officers, among other action, according to...
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Making everyday decisions
Choosing what shirt to buy, what to order for lunch or whether to go with the hearty red wine or the lighter white all involve assigning values to the options. A small brain structure plays a central...
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First Year Reading Program selects ‘Between the World and Me’
“Between the World and Me,” by acclaimed writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, is the 2016 First Year Reading Program selection. Written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son, the book is both a tender...
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A new route to chaos
Researchers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a novel route to encode chaos on light in an optomechanical microresonator system....
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Murphy, Virgin elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are among the 84 members and 21 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. Election to the academy...
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A step toward personalized diabetes treatments
Researchers have produced insulin-secreting cells from stem cells derived from the skin of patients with type 1 diabetes. The cells (blue), made from stem cells, can secrete insulin (green) in response...
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Class Acts 2016: Go out and change the world
Each year, Washington University in St. Louis highlights our graduating seniors and graduate students who are changing the world through research, service and innovation. The 2016 Class Acts are:...
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What studying hand-washing is teaching about compliance
In a myriad of workplace settings, standard processes are key to a successful operation, ensuring efficiency and safety. For these processes to work, employees must comply. But what’s the best way to...
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Mouse models of Zika in pregnancy show how fetuses become infected
Two mouse models of Zika virus infection in pregnancy were developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this photo, Zika virus, marked with red, infects a mouse...
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Studying hot spots of antibiotic resistance
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/embargo/Bugs-El%20Sal%20Peru.mp3 Antibiotic-resistant bacteria most often are associated with hospitals and other health-care settings, but a new study indicates...
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Brain imaging links Alzheimer’s decline to tau protein
A study using a new PET imaging agent shows that measures of tau protein in the brain more closely track cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s disease compared with long-studied measures of amyloid...
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Cause and effect, or effect and cause?
Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious. A physicist would probably describe what is...
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