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Bacteria that naturally live in the soil have a vast collection of genes to fight off antibiotics, but they are much less likely to share these genes than infectious bacteria, a new study at the School of Medicine reveals. Shown is senior author Gautam Dantas, PhD. 
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| Josh Whitman has been named the new director of athletics at WUSTL. Provost H. Holden Thorp, PhD, made the announcement. Whitman, who starts Aug. 1, comes here from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He will succeed John Schael, who is retiring after 36 years.
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| A project to provide low-cost eyeglasses for people in the developing world and one to develop a cell-death detector will share $25,000 to further develop their projects as winners of the 2014 Discovery Competition. The School of Engineering & Applied Science created the competition in 2012.
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| “The Surrounding Game” is a documentary film about the game of Go co-directed by WUSTL graduate student Cole Pruitt. It follows two of America’s top young players. The story explores a larger question: Can a game this subtle and difficult, which has been pursued as a fine art in Asia for millennia, be transplanted to America,
which lacks the culture and training system?
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| A new theory about disorders that attack the brain and spinal column has received a significant boost from scientists at the School of Medicine. The theory links these conditions to corrupted proteins known as prions, which appear bright green in this image of brain cells from a patient with Alzheimer’s disease.
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