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Mark Twain, a skeptic of the idea of free will, argues in his essay “What Is Man?” that humans do not command their minds or the opinions they form. Twain’s views get a boost this week from researchers at the School of Medicine and University of Chieti, Italy. In Nature Neuroscience, scientists report that a simple decision-making task does not involve the frontal lobes, where many of the higher aspects of human cognition, including self-awareness, are thought to originate.

The Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Program is seeking applications from junior faculty with a medical degree, doctorate or M.D./Ph.D. who are pursuing a research career in areas relevant to women’s health. These include autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, depression, complications of pregnancy, diabetes and obesity, osteoporosis, infectious diseases and cancer. The program supports […]

School of Medicine scientists have assembled the most complete catalog to date of the genetic changes underlying the most common form of lung cancer.

Photo by Michael Worful(From left) Jessica Dasher and Denise Curl, who work with Kerri Morgan at the Enabling Mobility Center, congratulate Morgan on her performance at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing at a welcome home party for Morgan in the Program in Occupational Therapy lobby.

Photo by Michael WorfulKerri Morgan’s Paralympic experience in Beijing set a new U.S. record.

School of Medicine researchers report they have found the first gene linked to clubfoot in humans, a condition that affects 1 in 1,000 new births.

School of Medicine scientists have assembled the most complete catalog to date of the genetic changes underlying the most common form of lung cancer.

The Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Program is seeking applications from junior faculty researching areas relevant to women’s health.

School of Medicine researchers have shown that they can extend the life spans of roundworms by blocking their sense of smell.

Acute myelogenous leukemia cellsFor the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease – acute myelogenous leukemia – to its genetic roots. A large research team at the Genome Sequencing Center and the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine sequenced the genome of the patient – a woman in her 50s who ultimately died of her disease – and the genome of her leukemia cells, to identify genetic changes unique to her cancer.