Troubled times for fantasy sports leagues?

Fantasy sports providers and fans will be closely following the case that centers on the fantasy sports leagues’ use of players’ names without permission and the profits the league derives from doing so. An entertainment law expert and professor at WUSTL says that this case could have an effect on all fantasy leagues.

Outsourcing helps or hurts businesses, depending on how they’re used

People’s suspicions about outsourcing are sometimes right; it is just a way for firms to save a buck. But when firms outsource IT projects or share resources with a supplier, they might be creating competitors who could steal customers or profit making ideas, says a professor from the Olin School of Business. Without knowing when it is appropriate to outsource, the financial impact could be quite harmful.

No journey too large or too small

Whether she’s following a tantalizing thread of scientific evidence in the laboratory or trekking to remote corners of the world with her husband, Jake, Sheila Stewart loves epic journeys. Stewart, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology and physiology, speaks with equal enthusiasm of her studies of molecular structures on the ends of DNA and of […]

Breast cancer may be several diseases

“We’re analyzing the genes active in breast tumors to characterize the biological behaviors of each breast-cancer subtype,” says lead investigator Matthew Ellis.

Dance fever

Photo by Tim ParkerMedical students in the Ballroom Dance Club learn dances for the School of Medicine’s 10th annual Faculty/Student Med Ball, to be held March 11.