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.
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.
Bradley P. Stoner, MD, PhD, has been elected president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, the national society that represents researchers and clinicians specializing in sexually transmitted infections.
State laws that limit driving privileges for teens have reduced the incidence of drinking and driving among the nation’s youngest licensees, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Teens comprise less than 5 percent of licensed drivers in the country, but they account for roughly 20 percent of motor vehicle crashes.
Leading privacy law experts from around the world will gather in Cambridge, England, on June 26 and 27 for the first International Privacy Law conference, a joint effort between Washington University in St. Louis School of law and the University of Cambridge. “Every modern society is confronting novel issues of privacy, and our conference brings together some of the smartest thinkers about privacy in the world to compare notes and come up with new solutions,” says Neil M. Richards, JD, conference co-chair and professor of law at Washington University. Conference topics will include intellectual privacy, the conflict between privacy and free speech, the psychology of privacy, public access to court records, and privacy reform in Australia.
Math and music might seem a strange combination to
some. Certainly many famous performers are able to bring audiences to
their feet without once thinking about ratios or anything else overtly
mathematical. But David Wright, chairman of the mathematics department at Washington University in St. Louis, always has been gifted with an unusual, even
eerie, ability to hear both the music and the math simultaneously.
Workers prepare to place a new MRI scanner into the East Building at the School of Medicine June 11. The 18,000-pound scanner will be used for the Human Connectome Project, a research study that will trace the anatomical and functional connections between different
regions of the brain’s gray matter.
Racial discrimination could lessen the mental-health benefits usually associated with better socio-economic position for African-American men, finds a new study by Darrell L. Hudson, PhD, assistant professor of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sixteen St. Louis youth will be in Forest Park on June 13 tracking
box turtles, fitted with telemetry devices — all to help with a project
aimed at studying box turtle movements and their health. The 12- and 13-year-olds are participating in a pilot study designed
by scientists from the Saint Louis Zoo and Washington University in St.
Louis to document box turtle movements and their health status in urban
and rural areas in and around St. Louis.
Some 200 U.S. scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere detail findings from the most comprehensive census of the microbial make-up of healthy humans.
