Newsroom Stories

The University was one of the key participants in the research that led to FDA approval of a drug-coated stent to treat patients with clogged cardiac arteries.

Stephanie Hanson, Michael J. Murphy, Steven A. Pijut and Steve Scharre have won the 16th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

“These findings reveal an important new detail about the molecular mechanism Toxoplasma uses to penetrate cells,” says study leader L. David Sibley.

Jennings High School students enjoy lunch April 25 in Rebstock Hall during a DNA Science Days field trip.

The University’s international students, faculty and researchers should carefully consider traveling outside the U.S. — particularly if a new visa is needed.

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He died at his home from complications of Shy Drager disease Saturday, April 26, 2003.

Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center in the School of Medicine sequenced the virus in what is possibly record time — less than a week.

Employees who wish to use the University’s employer-assisted housing program now have some options in an area of the city of St. Louis.

While most of the world works to contain the spread of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) in the School of Medicine has become part of the international effort to understand the microbe. Researchers at the GSC were called upon to sequence the new virus and poorly understood human pathogen. They completed the task in what is possibly record time — less than a week.