An ion channel senses cell swelling and helps cells to choose a response
New research from Washington University in St. Louis offers clues about how mechanosensitive ion channels in the plant’s cells respond to swelling by inducing cell death — potentially to protect the rest of the plant.
Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are the first to study presolar materials that landed on a planet-like body. Their findings may help solve the mystery: where did all the water on Earth come from?
Chemistry student receives PEO Sisterhood award
Abigail Delawder, a PhD student in chemist Jonathan Barnes’ lab in Arts & Sciences, was selected to receive a Scholar Award from the Philanthropic Education Organization Sisterhood. Delawder is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected to receive the award this year.
Modeling study: COVID-19 stay-at-home policies to be relaxed before pandemic peaks
Relaxing stay-at-home social and business policies will be accompanied by increases in the infection rate, and the race for a vaccine will lose its value to big Pharma almost with each passing day. Those are the main findings by two economists from Washington University in St. Louis and another from the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, who investigated the properties of the optimal lockdown policy.
‘Extinction crisis even worse than realized’
“This new study shows that the extinction crisis is even worse than realized,” said Jonathan Losos, the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor and professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the Living Earth Collaborative.
Antibiotic-destroying genes widespread in bacteria in soil and on people
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that genes that confer the power to destroy tetracyclines are widespread in bacteria that live in the soil and on people.
How to build better highways in plants
The Dixit lab at Washington University in St. Louis, which in a study published in 2018 found molecular brakemen that keep the Arabidopsis Fragile Fiber 1 (FRA1) motor protein in check, uncovered in continuing research that FRA1 cinches its track in place through cellulose synthase-microtubule uncoupling proteins.
Acree wins LASA Best Book Award
William Acree, associate professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, has won a Best Book Award from the 19th Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). The award was announced May15, in conjunction with LASA’s 2020 International Congress.
Living faithfully in a world of difference
In a society that is increasingly diverse yet less tolerant, how can Christians live faithfully while respecting those whose beliefs are radically different? A Washington University in St. Louis scholar says before we can find common ground with others, we must start by acknowledging and being comfortable with our own beliefs that make us different.
Gross receives 2020 ASMS John B. Fenn Award
Michael L. Gross, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences and of immunology and internal medicine in the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, has received this year’s John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry.
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