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Downloadable, high-resolution promo photos for the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts’ “76th Annaul Fashion Design Show” at Saint Louis Galleria May 1.

Magnified nanoparticlesSpecially designed nanoparticles can reveal tiny cancerous tumors that are invisible to ordinary means of detection, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine. Researchers demonstrated that very small human melanoma tumors growing in mice — indiscernible from the surrounding tissue by direct MRI scan — could be “lit up” and easily located. Because the nanoparticles can be engineered to carry a variety of substances, they also may be able to deliver cancer-fighting drugs to malignant tumors.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe “YES Clinic” at the Athletic Complex was an opportunity for approximately 250 area youngsters to learn from WUSTL coaches and student-athletes.

Ben Sandler’s nearly 37-year relationship with the University started innocently enough, in 1966, when he arrived from his role as an English teacher in Maine to do graduate work in English literature. The choice of WUSTL was an easy one for him. “The English department had a great reputation,” he says, before adding, “and Washington […]

The concert is free and open to the public and will be held in conjunction with the exhibit Inside Out Loud at the Kemper Art Museum.

Initial results from an ongoing study demonstrate that the combined use of both standard tests is optimal for detecting cancer.

Seventeen million Americans live with diabetes, and one of the major complications from the disease is foot wounds.

“We don’t have to start from scratch because these drugs are already approved chemotherapy agents,” says senior investigator David Gutmann.

They will entail reviews of simple strategies and concepts needed to make sound investment decisions.

He wrote The Other Man Was Me, which won a National Poetry Series Award; and What the Body Told, which won a Lambda Literary Award for poetry.