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Consistent exercise is associated with a lower risk of dying from colon cancer, according to a new study led by Siteman Cancer Center researchers. The study is among the first to show that physical activity can make the disease less deadly. 

SPACE.com Mars Rover to Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Big Crater 12/29/2010 NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has its plans for New Year’s Eve all sorted out — it will be poking around a football-field-size crater called Santa Maria. And Santa Maria is special as far as craters go. The crater appears to be extremely young […]

Addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity, and the association between a family history of alcoholism and obesity risk has become more pronounced in recent years.  

AsiaNews.it Hong Kong becoming a leading centre for genomic research 12/29/2010 Hong Kong is poised to become international gene sequencing and genomics research hub, thanks to Beijing’s drive to turn the country into an international science powerhouse by 2020. Already it houses some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and gene sequencers, the result of […]

Reporters covering the Senate and citizens watching from the sidelines will welcome a new guide to the upcoming battle over the filibuster from one of the preeminent authorities on Congress.  Political science professor Steven S. Smith has prepared a primer outlining proposals and procedures for reforming the Senate’s rules pertaining to filibusters. Get ready for the opening of the 112th Congress and a possible showdown over the parliamentary procedure that has been used to block legislation by both parties and famously by Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned why changes in a single gene, ROP18, contribute substantially to dangerous forms of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The answer has likely moved science a step closer to new ways to beat Toxoplasma and many other parasites.

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The New York Times In pursuit of a mind map, slice by slice 12/27/2010 In September, the National Institutes of Health handed out $40 million in grants to researchers at Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Los Angeles , to pursue connectomics, an emerging field that […]

Washington University’s Human Research Protection Office (HRPO) has received an award from the Health Improvement Institute recognizing its Community Engaged Research Program, one of three the institute gave for 2010.

Vladimir B. Birman, PhD, associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $324,815 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Bronsted Acid Catalysis in Enantioselective Acyl Substitution.” … Ian MacMullen, PhD, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $55,000 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from […]