Author: Ken Duenke

Ironically, diabetes researchers are hoping to promote the capability of mTOR that oncologists want to shut down: its ability to cause cells to reproduce by dividing into copies of themselves.

A newly opened clinical trial will evaluate the use of radioactive implants combined with surgical removal of small sections of lung to treat stage I lung cancer. The first patients are now being enrolled at the School of Medicine, and the trial will soon be opened at centers nationwide.

Cervical cancers that take up a lot of blood sugar resist treatment more than those that are less glucose-hungry.

As part of a State Department program, the visitors made presentations to law school faculty and students on legal education and the legal profession in Nepal.

Vitamin D supplements may ease joint and muscle pain in breast cancer patients taking the drug Arimidex.

He’s been at WUSTL since 1968; national media often ask him to provide expert commentary regarding the use of rhetoric as a political or social tool.

The chancellor reviews some of the academic year’s achievements and milestones, and shares some plans to be initiated shortly after Commencement.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have added a gene in the bacterium Salmonella to the short list of genes regulated by a new mechanism known as the riboswitch.

The straightforward solution for many people living in poverty is building savings. For the 9 million disabled Americans living in poverty, the answer isn’t as simple. “The poverty rate among Americans with disabilities is nearly double that of persons without disabilities, and while there is a complex web of federal and state-based programs offering financial assistance to eligible persons with disabilities, policy rules often preclude the accumulation of assets, which are often key for exiting poverty,” says Michelle Putnam, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work at Washington University. “”New research and public policies have the potential to help people with disabilities to have greater economic resources and become more integrated into their communities.” More …

Neurons (shown here in green) fire more frequently in mice lacking Kv4.2 potassium channels.Studying mice, pain researchers at the School of Medicine have identified key components in the pain cascade that may provide targets for more effective analgesic drugs with potentially fewer side effects. Scientists have identified a potassium channel that plays a crucial role in what scientists call pain plasticity, the ability of molecules in the spinal cord to amplify or diminish the response to a painful stimulus.