Author: Ken Duenke

Despite lack of a key component of the immune system, a line of genetically engineered mice can control chronic herpes virus infections, researchers at the School of Medicine have found. Scientists suspect the missing component has a previously unrecognized backup that fills the void left by its absence. If so, that backup may become a new focus for efforts to design antiviral vaccines.

Fred U. Rosenberger, D.Sc., senior professor of computer science and engineering, died Sunday , May 14, 2006 , of pancreatic cancer at Bethesda Dilworth nursing home. He was 66.

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Through community outreach and participation on area kickball, softball and volleyball teams, she found the right equation to combine her varied interests.

Through his varied studies — which include a master’s degree in economics from George Washington University — he sees connection to a broader world.

Heart patients who smoke and have implanted defibrillators are much more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

It hasn’t taken long for Mahendra Gupta, Ph.D., to get acclimated to his new role at the Olin School of Business. One year into his term as dean, he is usually seen in a dapper suit and tie, a huge smile emerging from beneath his mustache as he greets people by name. All in all, […]

Photo by Bill StoverThe University’s men’s and women’s tennis teams recently sponsored a tennis clinic for Special Olympics athletes in Forest Park.

He died May 14 of pancreatic cancer; he earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees degree in electrical engineering from WUSTL.

Growing up in 10 states across India, Richa Dhanju saw “immense disparity amongst people and between men and women.” But it wasn’t until she was pursuing an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Lady Sri Ram College for Women in New Delhi that she started examining these differences. “Women’s secondary status and role in the patriarchal […]