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School of Medicine researchers have received a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to better understand the link between fetal heart decreases during labor and brain damage to newborns. The scientists will compare fetal heart rate patterns to neonatal outcomes in 7,000 term deliveries.

Scientific American A new form of chlorophyll? 08/19/2010 Researchers may have found a new form of chlorophyll, the pigment that plants, algae and cyanobacteria use to obtain energy from light through photosynthesis. Preliminary findings published August 19 in Science suggest that the newly discovered molecule, dubbed chlorophyll f, has a distinct chemical composition when compared […]

Researchers in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis conduct a study on the battle between an invasive plant and a native plant on the coast of California and how it is effecting wildlife in the area.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Blagojevich trial nets 1 conviction 08/18/2010 The count on which Blagojevich was found guilty included accusations that he lied to federal agents when he said he did not track campaign contributions and kept a “firewall” between political campaigns and government work. It carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. […]

In mid-summer two lucky Washington University in St. Louis graduate students got to travel to Lake Constance in Germany to listen in the morning to Nobel laureates lecture on the topics of their choice and quiz them in afternoon about life in science and what it is really like.

George Macones, MD, the Mitchell and Elaine Yanow Professor and head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine, conducted one of two large observational studies of women who try to give birth vaginally after a prior cesarean section. The study showed the rates of the previous uterine incision breaking open were less than 1 percent.

The Telegraph (UK) Human Microbiome Project: a map of every bacterium in the body 9/17/2010 The Human Microbiome Project is unraveling the vastly important job that the unseen bacteria and microbes that live in and on our bodies play in human health. “We should no longer think of these organisms in isolation,” says Professor George […]

The new era of healthcare reform is demanding a new hybrid in leadership: executives who can bridge the worlds of business and public healthcare policy.  To meet the growing needs of an ever more complex health care sector, Washington University in St. Louis is launching a new dual degree program.  The MBA/MPH degree will offer the best in business administration and public health to prepare tomorrow’s leaders in the field of healthcare.

Recent work with geochemical proxies for oxygen levels suggests that oxygen levels continued to fluctuate long after the Great Oxygenation Event 2.7 billion years ago, and that the oceans were many different flavors of anoxic right up until the Edicaran period, 600 million years ago. What happened in the intervening 2 billion years will be contested until scientists have more data, says a geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis.

Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning has received a $1.76 million five-year grant from the United States Department of Education to fund the TRiO Student Support Services program.