Charles Huddleston performs a pediatric lung transplant.A team of researchers at the School of Medicine has found that using lobes of lungs from living donors improves the chances of short-term survival for children who require a second lung transplant. Living-donor lung retransplantation involves removing a lower lobe, or about one-third of a lung, from each of two healthy adult donors and then transplanting the lobes as replacement lungs into a child.
The answer to a 50-year-old question has been found by scientists at the School of Medicine. The question: Is it possible to accurately measure the intrinsic filling function of the heart?
Researchers have found that two common organisms collude and collaborate to increase the amount of calories harvested from a class of carbohydrates found in food sweeteners. In the study, conducted in previously germ-free mice, colonization with two prominent human gut microbes led to fatter mice. Scientists at the School of Medicine called the results an illustration of how understanding the menagerie of microorganisms that live in our guts can provide new insights into health.
Photo by Kevin LowderStudents washed dogs at a Campus Y fund-raiser, raising $200 for the Animal Protective Association & the St. Louis Animal Regulation Center.
School of Medicine researchers are developing a quick test for caffeine, a dipstick, that can be used to check for caffeine in a variety of drinks.
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