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13-Jul-2018 3:05 PM EDT
New ALS Therapy in Clinical Trials
Washington University in St. Louis

New research led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates an investigational therapy for an inherited form of ALS extends survival and reverses signs of neuromuscular damage in mice and rats. The findings, published July 16 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, have led to a phase one/two clinical trial to investigate whether the drug could benefit people with ALS whose disease is caused by mutations in a gene called SOD1.

Released: 16-Jul-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Researchers Engineer Bacteria That Create Fertilizer Out of Thin Air
Washington University in St. Louis

A team at Washington University in St. Louis has created a bacteria that uses photosynthesis to create oxygen during the day, and at night, uses nitrogen to create chlorophyll for photosynthesis. This development could lead to plants that do the same, eliminating the use of some — or possibly all — man-made fertilizer, which has a high environmental cost.

Released: 13-Jul-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Is Surgery the Best Option for Penetrating Kidney Trauma?
Saint Louis University Medical Center

SLU surgeon Sameer A. Siddiqui, M.D., and his research team examined patient records to study the best approach for renal trauma injuries.

Released: 12-Jul-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Missouri S&T Biochemical Engineer Patents Low-Cost Method of Removing Bacterial Toxins From Fluids
Missouri University of Science and Technology

By some estimates, 18 million people die each year from sepsis triggered by endotoxins – fragments of the outer membranes of bacteria. A biochemical engineer at Missouri University of Science and Technology has patented a method of removing these harmful elements from water and also from pharmaceutical formulations.Her goal: improve drug safety and increase access to clean drinking water in the developing world.

   
Released: 12-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT
VIP Neurons Hold Master Key to Jet Lag Response
Washington University in St. Louis

Travel by airplane has opened the door to experiencing different cultures and exploring natural wonders. That is, if you can get past the jet lag. But what if you could take control of the brain's daily timing system? Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis unlocked a cure for jet lag in mice by activating a small subset of the neurons involved in setting daily rhythms, as reported in a July 12 advance online publication of Neuron.

   
Released: 9-Jul-2018 4:15 PM EDT
Colorectal Cancer Advocates to Summit Quandary Peak Near Breckenridge, Colorado on Monday, July 16
Fight Colorectal Cancer

Over 80 colorectal cancer advocates will hike to Quandary Peak near Breckenridge, Colorado on Monday, July 16 to raise awareness.

Released: 9-Jul-2018 3:30 PM EDT
Can Fasting Improve MS Symptoms?
Washington University in St. Louis

People with multiple sclerosis (MS) can find an abundance of conflicting advice suggesting that special diets will ease their symptoms. But the evidence is scanty. Laura Piccio, MD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has launched a trial to evaluate whether drastically cutting calories twice a week can change the body’s immune environment and the gut microbiome, and potentially change the course of the disease.

Released: 9-Jul-2018 12:50 PM EDT
New Patch Boosts Brightness in Medical Diagnostic Tests
Washington University in St. Louis

A multidisciplinary team from Washington University in St. Louis and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has developed a high-tech fix that brings some medical diagnostic tests out of the dark and into the light.

Released: 6-Jul-2018 10:00 AM EDT
New Model for Predicting Neuroblastoma Outcomes Incorporates Early Developmental Signals
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Motivated by a desire to better understand the molecular circuitry underlying neuroblastoma and limitations of current methods for predicting disease progression and outcome, researchers from the Kulesa Lab at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators at the University of Michigan and Oxford University set out to construct a logic-based model incorporating information about developmental signaling pathways implicated in the disease.

   
3-Jul-2018 9:00 AM EDT
Gene Therapy Method Developed to Target Damaged Kidney Cells
Washington University in St. Louis

Research led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown, in mice, that genetic material can be delivered to damaged cells in the kidneys, a key step toward developing gene therapy to treat chronic kidney disease. The potentially fatal condition affects 30 million Americans, most of whom don’t realize they have chronic kidney disease.

Released: 5-Jul-2018 1:30 PM EDT
Non-Opioid Drug Relieves Pain in Mice, Targets Immune Cells
Washington University in St. Louis

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that inhibiting a receptor on immune cells called macrophages may help relieve pain in some patients, particularly those with chronic neuropathic pain, such as those with conditions like diabetic neuropathy.

29-Jun-2018 4:15 PM EDT
New Assay Reveals Biophysical Properties That Allow Certain Proteins to Infect Others
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have identified a physical basis for the spread of corrupted proteins known as prions inside cells. Their research findings are reported in the July 5, 2018, issue of the scientific journal Molecular Cell.

Released: 3-Jul-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Loneliness Found to Be High in Public Senior Housing Communities
Washington University in St. Louis

Older adults living in public senior housing communities experience a large degree of loneliness, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.Nevertheless, senior housing communities may be ideal locations for reducing that loneliness, the study finds.“There are many studies on loneliness among community-dwelling older adults; however, there is limited research examining the extent and correlates of loneliness among older adults who reside in senior housing communities,” wrote Harry Chatters Taylor, doctoral student at the Brown School and lead author of “Loneliness in Senior Housing Communities,” published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

   
Released: 3-Jul-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Missouri S&T receives largest gift in its history with in-kind contribution of seismic data
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T has received the largest gift in its history: an in-kind donation of proprietary seismic data valued at $6.5 million from Calico Jack Holdings LLC and Zion Energy LLC, both Houston-based oil and gas exploration companies.

Released: 2-Jul-2018 8:05 PM EDT
Missouri S&T taps Penn State prof, NSF program director to oversee research in College of Engineering and Computing
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. Angela Lueking, a professor of energy and mineral engineering and chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University and a recent program director at the National Science Foundation, is joining Missouri S&T as associate dean of research in the College of Engineering and Computing starting Aug. 1.

Released: 2-Jul-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Fireworks 101: Behind the Scenes of a Pyrotechnics Class
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Missouri University's one-of-a-kind commercial fireworks display course.

   
28-Jun-2018 9:00 AM EDT
Air Pollution Contributes Significantly to Diabetes Globally
Washington University in St. Louis

New research links outdoor air pollution — even at levels deemed safe — to an increased risk of diabetes globally, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System. The findings raise the possibility that reducing pollution may lead to a drop in diabetes cases in heavily polluted countries such as India and less polluted ones such as the United States.

Released: 28-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Researchers mimic Legos for molecular building blocks, earn $411,000 NSF grant
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Scientists at Missouri University of Science and Technology are drawing inspiration from toy building blocks to create fixed molecular units used to accelerate the material discovery process known as rational design. They’ll use these “molecular blocks” to discover highly ionic conductive materials that could be used to make today’s much sought after all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Released: 26-Jun-2018 4:10 PM EDT
New Imaging Technique to Use Bioinspired Camera to Study Tendon, Ligament Damage
Washington University in St. Louis

Tommy John surgery, or reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the elbow, has been dubbed an epidemic among Major League Baseball pitchers. A mechanical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis plans to develop a bioinspired imaging technique to study how damage accumulates in the UCL during loading, or the stress of activating the ligament.

25-Jun-2018 2:30 PM EDT
Chemotherapy-Induced Diarrhea Traced to Immune Cells
Washington University in St. Louis

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that immune cells called macrophages can trigger smooth muscle contractions in the intestinal tract, independent of nerve cells.

Released: 25-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Building a Better Microscope
Washington University in St. Louis

Microscopes are limited in what they can see because of their resolution, or their ability to see detail. The detail, or information, from the object is there, but some of it gets lost as the light reflecting off of the object moves through the air. Ulugbek Kamilov, an engineer in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, plans to use a three-year, $265,293 grant from the National Science Foundation to capture the information that normally gets lost and add it to the information researchers typically receive from microscopes.

18-Jun-2018 12:30 PM EDT
Parent-Child Therapy Helps Young Children with Depression
Washington University in St. Louis

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrates that an interactive therapy involving parents and their depressed preschoolers can reduce rates of depression and lower the severity of children’s symptoms.

Released: 19-Jun-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Not always bad — MXenes’ spontaneous oxidation harnessed to create 2-D nanocomposites
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have discovered a new way to harness the potential of a type of spontaneously oxidized MXene thin films, to create nanocomposites that could sense both light and the environment. Previously, such spontaneous oxidation was considered detrimental because it degrades the MXene structure. The research is published in the June 2018 issue of ACS Nano, one of Google Scholar’s top-rated, peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Released: 18-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Study: Left to Devices, You Can Learn to Save Money
Washington University in St. Louis

Billions of people worldwide, particularly those in developing countries, face challenges saving money. They may already hold a device that can assist them in the palms of their hands: their cellphone.In collaboration with a mobile network provider in Afghanistan called Roshan Telecommunications, three researchers, including Tarek Ghani, assistant professor of strategy at Olin Business School at Washington University St.

Released: 15-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT
WashU Expert: SCOTUS strikes down clothing ban over ‘imprecise’ wording
Washington University in St. Louis

The U.S. Supreme Court  struck down a ban on clothing with political messages being worn inside polling places. Greg Magarian, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on free speech and the law of politics, said the court’s June 14 decision in the case was very narrow.“The court affirms that states may ban electoral advocacy inside polling places, because polling places serve a specific purpose — enabling voting — that some kinds of electoral advocacy can interfere with,” Magarian said.

Released: 14-Jun-2018 12:05 PM EDT
SLUCare's Heart Team Earns Recognition for Quality Care
Saint Louis University Medical Center

SLUCare Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care recently received National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognition as a patient-centered specialty practice.

12-Jun-2018 10:30 AM EDT
Scientists Have Captured the Elusive Cell That Can Regenerate an Entire Flatworm
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have captured the one cell that is capable of regenerating an entire organism.

Released: 13-Jun-2018 6:05 PM EDT
WashU Expert: World Cup 2026 a matter of economics
Washington University in St. Louis

North America, even in the face of controversial policies regarding immigration under President Trump’s administration, had more to offer soccer’s international governing body, says a sports business expert from Washington University in St. Louis. As a result, the “United Bid” of the United States, Canada and Mexico was awarded the 2026 World Cup on the eve of this year’s competition in Russia.

Released: 12-Jun-2018 10:05 AM EDT
WashU Expert: SCOTUS decision strikes another blow against democracy, voting rights
Washington University in St. Louis

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 11 upheld Ohio’s efforts to purge its voter rolls — a  move that spreads voting discrimination across America, argued a constitutional law expert at Washington University in St. Louis.“The most disturbing, destructive trend in contemporary American politics has been conservatives’ multi-pronged effort to disenfranchise voters they don’t like.

Released: 7-Jun-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Scientists ID source of damaging inflammation after heart attack
Washington University in St. Louis

Scientists have zeroed in on a culprit that spurs damaging inflammation in the heart following a heart attack. The guilty party is a type of immune cell that tries to heal the injured heart but instead triggers inflammation that leads to even more damage. The researchers, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that an already approved drug effectively tamps down such inflammation in mice, protecting the heart from the progressive damage that often occurs after a heart attack.

Released: 6-Jun-2018 3:30 PM EDT
Can a Twitter-Based Reporting Tool Improve Foodborne Illness Tracking?
Washington University in St. Louis

Foodborne illness is a serious and preventable public health problem, affecting one in six Americans and costing an estimated $50 billion annually. As local health departments adopt new tools that monitor Twitter for tweets about food poisoning, a study from Washington University in St. Louis is the first to examine practitioner perceptions of this technology.

   
Released: 6-Jun-2018 9:20 AM EDT
New tools reveal prelude to chaos
Washington University in St. Louis

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed tools that mathematically describe the kinetics in a system right before it dissolves into randomness.

Released: 5-Jun-2018 2:05 PM EDT
WashU Expert: More at stake than cake in SCOTUS decision
Washington University in St. Louis

While this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision siding  7-2 with bakery owner Jack Phillips in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission was “far from explosive,” it still sends important signals on how such cases will be handled in the future, said a legal scholar at Washington University in St.

Released: 4-Jun-2018 4:00 PM EDT
WashU Expert: Clear Principles Needed for Meaningful Digital Free Expression
Washington University in St. Louis

Our daily lives revolve around the internet, whether it’s personal contact, news or the sharing of political views. As such, there remains significant work to do so the internet can deal with the real challenges it faces, rather than ones it fails to consider, an internet privacy expert at Washington University in St. Louis argues in a new paper.

4-Jun-2018 11:00 AM EDT
In Nature Materials Paper, Researchers Describe New Method to Boost Electron Mobility, Conductivity
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Two chemistry researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology are part of an international team that has designed a new metal-organic framework that exhibits dramatic improvements in electron mobility, which could lead to new applications for fuels cells, batteries and other technologies.

Released: 3-Jun-2018 12:05 AM EDT
Act Fast to Pay Attention
Washington University in St. Louis

Want to improve your attention? Washington University in St. Louis brain sciences researcher Richard Abrams finds that our attention may be guided by the most recent interactions with our environment.

   
Released: 1-Jun-2018 1:05 AM EDT
Fortune — and Nature — Favors the Bold
Washington University in St. Louis

Some people argue that animals have personalities: shy, bold, aggressive.It’s more than just cocktail party conversation for anole lizards, whose risk-taking behavior can mean the difference between life and death.For anoles in the Caribbean islands, natural selection predictably favors exploratory behavior in the absence of predators, and ground avoidance when predators are around, according to a new experimental field study in the June 1 issue of Science.

Released: 31-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Parenting, child care services have most potential to help low-income families
Washington University in St. Louis

Child care, parenting and child health/health care are important factors in improving the lives of children in low-income families, according to a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers conducted a national survey of staff at helplines where consumers dial 211 for community information and referral services.

29-May-2018 3:00 PM EDT
Drugs That Suppress Immune System May Protect Against Parkinson’s
Washington University in St. Louis

A new study shows that people who take drugs that suppress the immune system are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, which is characterized by difficulty with movement.

Released: 30-May-2018 6:20 PM EDT
Vasculitis Foundation Announces Winner and Honorable Mentions for the Annual 2018 V-RED Award
Vasculitis Foundation

The Vasculitis Foundation has given its annual V-RED Award to medical professionals who made a critical early diagnosis of vasculitis.

Released: 29-May-2018 9:00 AM EDT
Defects in Tissue Trigger Disease-Like Transformation of Cells
Washington University in St. Louis

Homeowners know that one little termite can lead to big problems: while termites are efficient at gnawing away at wood, they can do even more damage if the wood is already broken or has another defect. Mechanical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have found the same effect in some of the body’s tissue.

Released: 24-May-2018 4:15 PM EDT
Two Nashville Events to Raise Funds for Fight Colorectal Cancer This June
Fight Colorectal Cancer

Country music artist Craig Campbell is hosting his annual celebrity cornhole challenge and co-hosting the annual benefit dinner

Released: 24-May-2018 1:05 PM EDT
SLU Scientist Aims to Turn on Hypoglycemia’s Missed Signal
Saint Louis University Medical Center

Saint Louis University researcher Gina Yosten, Ph.D is pursuing solutions for people with diabetes who are at risk of life-threatening drops in blood sugar.

Released: 23-May-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Rock-and-Roll Grandpa Earns Missouri S&T Doctoral Degree for Research on Using Desert Shrub as Asphalt Recycling Agent
Missouri University of Science and Technology

He’s driven the backroads with some of the biggest names in rock and roll, from Def Leppard and KISS to John Denver and the Eurythmics, hauling both gear and performers as a truck- and bus-driving roadie.Yet despite his many brushes with fame, what gets Mike Lusher most excited these days is his Missouri University of Science and Technology research into an unassuming desert shrub that some predict will revolutionize the rubber industry.

Released: 21-May-2018 4:00 PM EDT
Clues Found to Early Lung Transplant Failure
Washington University in St. Louis

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Northwestern University have uncovered cells that flow into and harm the lung soon after transplant. The resulting dysfunction is the leading cause of early death after lung transplantation. The discovery, in mice, may lead to drug therapies that target the destructive cells.

17-May-2018 4:35 PM EDT
Eczema Drug Effective Against Severe Asthma
Washington University in St. Louis

Two new studies of patients with difficult-to-control asthma show that the eczema drug dupilumab alleviates asthma symptoms and improves patients’ ability to breathe better than standard therapies. Dupilumab, an injectable anti-inflammatory drug, was approved in 2017 by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for eczema, a chronic skin disease.

Released: 18-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Vasculitis Foundation Releases New Video, “What I Wish People Knew About Vasculitis” for Vasculitis Awareness Month 2018
Vasculitis Foundation

The VF has produced a new video as part of its Vasculitis Awareness Month campaign, that features patients sharing the one thing they wished people knew about their disease.



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