Foundational concept of ecology tested by experiment
How strong are the links in food webs? An experiment at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrates that they’re strong enough for a disturbance to propagate across four trophic levels and two ecosystems. The experiment demonstrates that invasive species such as purple loosestrife could have broad effects on surrounding plant and animal communities, many of them cryptic.
Media Advisory: Loading 1 million pounds of artificial turf to be reused throughout region
WHAT: In an environmentally friendly and community initiative, Washington University in St. Louis and Teamsters Joint Council 13 will load about 1 million pounds of large rolls of artificial turf from WUSTL’s Francis Field into trucks to be distributed and reused throughout the region in playgrounds, parks and more, instead of ending up in a […]
Animal reservoir mystery solved
A new assay that uses mitochondrial DNA that mutates faster than nuclear DNA has allowed scientists at Washington University in St. Louis to identify one of the major animal reservoirs for the ehlichioses, STARI and other tick-borne diseases in the southeastern United States. The animal turned out to be the eastern gray squirrel.
Scientists identify protein required to regrow injured nerves in limbs
A protein required to regrow injured peripheral nerves has been identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The finding, in mice, has implications for improving recovery after nerve injury in the extremities. It also opens new avenues of investigation toward triggering nerve regeneration in the central nervous system, notorious for its inability to heal.
Potential drug targets identified in common childhood brain cancer
Researchers studying the genetic roots of the most common malignant childhood brain tumor have discovered missteps in three of the four subtypes of the cancer involving genes that are already being targeted for drug development.
Nixon appoints Smith to higher education commission
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Mark W. Smith, JD, assistant
vice chancellor and director of the Career Center at Washington
University of St. Louis, to serve on the Midwestern Higher Education
Commission (MHEC). The commission advances higher education through interstate cooperation and resource sharing.
Gutmann recognized for neurofibromatosis research
David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, a neurofibromatosis expert
at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2012
Friedrich von Recklinghausen Award.
Bateman named Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Randall Bateman, MD, has been named the Charles F. and
Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor in Neurology at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Key part of plants’ rapid response system revealed
A cross-Atlantic collaboration between scientists at
Washington University in St. Louis, and the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, both
in Grenoble, France, has revealed the workings of a switch that
activates plant hormones, tags them for storage or marks them for
destruction.
Discovery helps mice beat urinary tract infections
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis have found new clues to why some urinary tract infections
recur persistently after multiple rounds of treatment. Their research, conducted in mice, suggests that the
bacteria that cause urinary tract infections take advantage of a
cellular waste disposal system that normally helps fight invaders.
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