Mothers’ paid work suffers during pandemic, study finds

New research from Washington University in St. Louis finds early evidence that the pandemic has exacerbated -not improved - the gender gap in work hours, which could have enduring consequences for working mothers.
10-Jul-2020 5:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research shows businesses can win more customers, influence your friends

New research involving Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard and the University of California, San Diego shows marketers could win more customers because existing customers may value the boost in their reputation among friends more than a...
10-Jul-2020 11:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Global wildlife surveillance could provide early warning for next pandemic

In a perspective article published July 9 in Science, a team of wildlife biologists, infectious disease experts, and others propose a decentralized, global wildlife biosurveillance system to identify – before the next pandemic emerges – animal...
8-Jul-2020 2:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Experimental drug shows early promise against inherited form of ALS, trial indicates

A clinical trial conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other sites has found evidence that the experimental drug tofersen lowers levels of a disease-causing protein in people with an inherited form of amyotrophic...
8-Jul-2020 8:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

COVID-19 demonstrates why wealth matters

While COVID-19 has impacted all individuals, the impact has not been equal. In a new national Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 survey, the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis found that liquid assets increased the...
6-Jul-2020 4:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Brown School’s Race and Opportunity Lab recommends specific policing reforms

As the nation struggles with police violence, a new report from HomeGrown StL in the Race and Opportunity Lab at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis recommends reforms to build an equitable, transparent and accountable public...
30-Jun-2020 3:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Artificial intelligence identifies, locates seizures in real-time

Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that understanding brain activity as a network instead of readings from an EEG allow for more accurate and efficient detection of seizures in real-time.
29-Jun-2020 1:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity

Using recent satellite observations, ground monitoring and computational modeling, researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have released a survey of global pollution rates. There are a couple of...
25-Jun-2020 2:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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