Obese women who use donor eggs to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization are just as likely to become pregnant as normal weight women, according to a new report. Pictured is the study’s first author, Emily Jungheim, MD, left, observing as Mary Bade uses assisted reproductive technology to inject a single sperm into an egg.
Some social amoebae farm the bacteria they eat. Now a collaboration of scientists at Washington University in St.
Louis and Harvard University has taken a closer look at one lineage, or
clone, of D. discoideum farmer. This farmer carries not one but two strains of bacteria. One strain
is the “seed corn” for a crop of edible bacteria, and the other strain
is a weapon that produces defensive chemicals. The edible bacteria, the scientists found, evolved from the toxic one.
A team of researchers, led by Arye Nehorai, PhD, the
Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering and chair
of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems
Engineering, has received a one-year grant from Washington University’s
International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy & Sustainability
(I-CARES) to take an interdisciplinary, “human-centered” approach to
making buildings more energy efficient.
The International Society of Photosynthesis
Research, meeting this August in St. Louis, is offering an afternoon of
talks and demonstrations about the original “green” chemistry invented
by bacteria and plants and its relevance to our energy future. Intended for teachers, students and the public, “Photosynthesis in
our Lives” will take place from 3- 5 p.m. the afternoon of Sunday,
August 11, 2013 in the Parkview room at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch. RSVP to: http://parc.wustl.edu/outreachRSVP by August 7, 2013.
Missouri has been held out as a model for juvenile
corrections programs, but the court system that puts young people into
these programs is in crisis, finds a recent report by the National
Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC). “Many young people in Missouri
wind up having to defend themselves in our juvenile courts – and
sometimes from behind bars,” says Mae C. Quinn, JD, professor of law and
co-director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Washington University in St.
Louis.
University College, the adult, evening and continuing education division in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has developed three new degree programs, including a master’s in statistics that is the only one offered in the St. Louis area. The other two new programs are a bachelor’s in communications and a bachelor’s in journalism. University College will offer the new programs this fall semester, which begins Aug. 27.
Washington University in St. Louis chemist D. André
d’Avignon, who manages the university’s high-resolution nuclear magnetic
resonance facility, has been named the winner of the 2013 Saint Louis
Award. The Saint Louis Award, administered by the St. Louis section of the American Chemical
Society, is given to an individual who has made outstanding
contributions to the profession of chemistry and demonstrated the potential
to further the advancement of the chemical profession.
Bear Necessities is offering a summer sale for WUSTL staff and faculty Aug. 2-4. Save on sales tax during tax-free weekend and buy one sale item and get one free.
Alison K. Snyder-Warwick, MD, assistant professor of
surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, was installed in
June as secretary of the Sir Charles Bell Society at the International Facial Nerve Symposium in Boston.