West Nile spread through nerve cells linked to paralysis
Injection of a West Nile virus antibody created by the University and Macrogenics Inc. blocked a complication of West Nile virus in laboratory animals.
Obituary: Kornberg, Nobel Prize winner, 89
Arthur Kornberg, M.D., former chair of microbiology at the School of Medicine and a Nobel Prize winner, died Oct. 26. He was 89.
Epilepsy-induced brain cell damage prevented in lab
School of Medicine scientists have used a drug to block seizure-induced structural changes in brain cells in laboratory animals.
‘Major obstacle’ overcome in diabetes research
School of Medicine scientists have found an approach to diabetes that has promise for curing the disease in humans.
Fresh discoveries
Photo by Robert BostonResearchers presented posters of their basic, clinical and translational research at the Research Training Symposium and Poster Session Oct. 25.
Lung disease genomics, genetics research training offered in pediatrics
F. Sessions Cole, M.D., has been awarded a nearly $2 million, five-year grant to establish a career development program in the genetics and genomics of lung disease.
Obituary: Canaan, assistant professor emeritus of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences, 85
Samuel A. Canaan Jr., M.D., assistant professor emeritus of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences, died Friday, Oct. 19 at age 85.
Campus Author: Kathryn (Tristan) Liszewski, research scientist
A School of Medicine faculty member has written a book about how she overcome her anxiety and panic attacks.
Tom Miller, professor of radiology, 63
Tom R. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology and of biomedical engineering, died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, at his home in Webster Groves. He was 63.
Six School of Medicine faculty named AAAS fellows
Six School of Medicine faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.
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