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Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar leads to obesity-linked microbes in the gut.

Results from assessments of diabetes’ effects on cell metabolism may aid efforts to reduce diabetic damage to nerves, blood vessels and other tissues.

School of Medicine researchers will join forces in the fight against musculoskeletal disorders at the Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine.

School of Medicine researchers have engineered mice with a persistent wound-like skin condition, which helps them understand tumor growth.

The Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases received a $37 million grant for research in those fields.

Photo by Joe AngelesStephen F. Brauer (left), James M. McKelvey, Ph.D. (center), former dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Camilla T. Brauer tour the new engineering building on the Danforth Campus Oct. 30. The 150,875-square-foot building will be called Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall and is on schedule to be completed by spring 2010.

Dancer and choreographer Lynn Lesniak Needle, a former soloist with Nikolais Dance Theatre in New York, leads a master class in modern dance for the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

In the summer of 1854, 127 people in or near Broad Street in the Solo district of London died of cholera. By talking to the residents of the area, the British physician John Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the public water pump on Broad Street. Snow’s spot map showing how deaths were […]

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Washington University will provide free 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccinations this week to current faculty, staff and students who are pregnant.