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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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Babies who develop leukemia during the first year of life appear to have inherited an unfortunate combination of genetic variations that may make the infants highly susceptible to the disease, according to a new study led by the School of Medicine’s Todd Druley, MD, PhD.
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Two members of the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences won the St. Louis FameLab competition last month and advance to the national competition in Washington, D.C. They are graduate student Joseph Orkin, who studies the genomic diversity of black-crested gibbons, and Amanda Melin, PhD, assistant professor, who studies color blindness in white-faced capuchin monkeys.
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Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified an unusual cause of the lysosomal storage disorder called mucolipidosis III, at least in a subset of patients. Unlike most genetic diseases that involve dysfunctional or missing proteins, the culprit is a normal protein that ends up in the wrong place.
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Schubert borrowed from Beethoven. Ice Cube quoted Kool and the Gang. Perhaps hip-hop and classical music aren’t as different as you think. Wilner “Wil-B” Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester, a.k.a. Black Violin, bring their distinctive sound to Edison at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 15.
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The dream
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In “Hold That Thought,” a podcast series from Arts & Sciences, Professor Rebecca Messbarger, PhD, discusses how wax figures in an 18th-century Italian museum changed views of the human body.
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4 p.m. Wednesday, March 12
‘Fluorescent Molecules for Fun and Profit’
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11 a.m. Thursday, March 13
University Libraries’ Taste
of Technology
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4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13
Racial disparities in breast cancer seminar
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Renowned researchers from around the globe will gather in St. Louis March 28 to discuss maternal and child health and infections in animals that threaten humans. Admission is free, but you must register by Friday, March 14.
WUSTL will test its emergency communication system, WUSTLAlerts, at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.
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