McKelvey Engineering staff creating face shields for health care workers

McKelvey Engineering staff are pitching in to create personal protective equipment for health care workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.
6-Apr-2020 5:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis studied the gut microbiomes of wild apes in the Republic of Congo, of captive apes in zoos in the U.S., and of people from around the world and discovered that lifestyle is more important than...
6-Apr-2020 3:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Weedy rice is unintended legacy of Green Revolution

A new global study reveals the extent to which high-yielding rice varieties favored in the decades since the “Green Revolution” have a propensity to go feral, turning a staple food crop into a weedy scourge.Weedy rice is a de-domesticated form...
26-Mar-2020 8:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Help line requests for food skyrocket as pandemic spreads

In the first week since COVID-19 was designated a pandemic, requests for food pantries skyrocketed across the United States. Requests for home-delivered meals more than tripled in the same time period, said a Brown School researcher who tracks calls...
24-Mar-2020 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Immunotherapy using ‘young cells’ offers promising option against cancer

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that the age of certain immune cells used in immunotherapy plays a role in how effective it is. These cells — natural killer (NK) cells — appear to be more effective...
20-Mar-2020 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Crowdsourced supercomputing project sets sights on coronavirus

People around the world are isolating themselves to help slow the spread of COVID-19. But there is another way those confined to their homes — but connected online — can join the fight against the novel coronavirus. Led by computational...
20-Mar-2020 1:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Tang Dynasty noblewoman buried with her donkeys, for the love of polo

A noblewoman from Imperial China enjoyed playing polo on donkeys so much she had her steeds buried with her so she could keep doing it in the afterlife, archaeologists found. This discovery by a team that includes Fiona Marshall, the James W. and...
17-Mar-2020 8:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Breast milk may help prevent sepsis in preemies

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have found — in newborn mice — that a component of breast milk may help protect premature babies from developing life-threatening sepsis.
16-Mar-2020 3:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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