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This image combines three MRI scans of a mouse: one is a typical scan showing internal organs, and the second two are scans tuned to the frequency of fluorine-laced nanoparticles (colored red and green).Nanoparticles developed by Washington University scientists in the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence could soon allow researchers and physicians to directly track cells used in medical treatments using unique signatures from the ingested nanoparticle beacons. The nanoparticles contain a compound that can be detected by MRI scanners, and the researchers believe nanoparticle-labeled cells could be used to evaluate cancerous tumors and many medical therapies.

Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., has become the first Carl F. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine.

School of Medicine researchers hope to one day combine a new drug with a small implanted light to stop seizures in patients with epilepsy.

Leonard Berg, M.D., will be remembered at a memorial service at 2 p.m. March 31 in the Connor Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

Diabetes is hard on the heart — adults with diabetes die from heart disease about two to four times more often than those without diabetes. And scientific evidence has suggested that blood fat levels are a source of this problem. Now a clinical study at the School of Medicine is investigating the link between blood fat and heart health.

Photo by Mary Butkus(From left) Michelle Levy, a junior majoring in biology in Arts & Sciences, with her date, fourth-year medical student Sameer Lodha, and fourth-year medical students Jennifer Chu and John Reuter enjoy the 10th annual Med Ball March 10 at the Millennium Hotel St. Louis.

Washington University joined a consortium of leading U.S. scientific and medical institutions March 19 to warn the U.S. Congress that persistent flat funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Washington University’s sports medicine specialists will coordinate care at the NCAA Division I Men’s Midwest Regional March 23-25 in St. Louis.

Investigators at the Silvio Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders at the School of Medicine are recruiting schizophrenia patients and their siblings for a study to determine whether subtle differences in brain structure can predict who is at risk for developing the illness.

Washington University today joined a consortium of leading scientific and medical institutions around the country to warn Congress that persistent flat-funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Following today’s Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS Committee hearing on funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington University and the eight other institutions issued a report at a Capitol Hill press conference on funding for U.S. medical research.