Newsroom Stories

An interdisciplinary team led by the lab of Srikanth Singamaneni has developed a new way to better visualize the proteins secreted by cells.

The university is offering an interdisciplinary course this fall exploring what led to the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and the implications going forward.

This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, will debut “Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988-2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions.” The first major survey to focus on Grosse’s studio-based paintings, the exhibition will investigate the important role large-scale canvases have played throughout her career, from the late 1980s to the present day.

Disparities in cancer stage at diagnosis among racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents may be partially explained by health insurance coverage, finds a study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Biologist Susanne Renner in Arts & Sciences investigated the oldest known seeds from watermelon relatives. Her research team shared two new genomes of the ancient seeds and described how Neolithic humans in Libya likely used the seeds, not the bitter flesh, from the melons.

University leadership provides an update on how flash flooding impacted the campus community as well as resources available for those who are affected.

John and Alison Ferring were honored with the 2022 Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award in June.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found that as people who smoke cigarettes attempt to quit, some move to e-cigarettes, but such people often become dual nicotine users, smoking and vaping. Researchers found that smoking-cessation treatments can help such users quit.

Animals will often put their lives on the line for reproduction, even if it comes at the cost of being the wrong temperature. New research from biologist Michael Moore in Arts & Sciences could help reveal the pathways that organisms might take as they adapt to a warming world.

Jeremy Goldbach, the Masters & Johnson Distinguished Professor in Sexual Health and Education at the Brown School, has received a five-year $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand intimate partner violence among LGBTQ adolescents.