WashU’s nasal COVID vaccine OK’d as booster in India

A nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on technology licensed from Washington University has been approved for emergency use in India as a booster for people who have already received two doses of other COVID-19 vaccines.

New postdoctoral program to train educational researchers

Andrew C. Butler, chair of education in Arts & Sciences, has won a $3.5 million grant, along with a researcher at Saint Louis University, for a new postdoctoral training program. It aims to enable educational researchers to address practical problems teachers face daily.

Evidence of autoimmunity’s origins uncovered

A study involving School of Medicine researchers supports the idea that some T cells that react to microbes also may react to normal human proteins, causing autoimmune disease. The findings promise to accelerate efforts to improve diagnostic tools and treatments for autoimmune diseases.

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A new imaging technology from the lab of Matthew Lew at the McKelvey School of Engineering uses reflection and refraction to more directly see molecules’ orientation and position. It’s inspired in part by the design of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Richard D. Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, received a four-year $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his phytochrome project.