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With significant contributions from the Genome Sequencing Center, the sequence of the human X chromosome has been published.

The University’s Project ARK will sponsor the Journey of Hope AIDS Awareness Tour’s St. Louis stop April 13.

Photo by Robert BostonMichael R. Brent, Ph.D., and Tamara L. Doering, M.D., Ph.D., examine data from the *C. neoformans* gene expression microarray.A team of collaborators, including two WUSTL researchers, has sequenced the genomes of two strains of Cryptococcus neoformans.

WenThree students from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been chosen for prominent offices, including national president, within the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). Leana S. Wen was elected national president; Andrew R. Reinink was named an associate regional trustee for Region VIII; and Kao-Ping Chua was hired for the position of Jack Rutledge Fellow.

Photo by Tim Parker(From left) Sam, Dylan and Ashley Mopkins show the scarves they made for their mom.When dealing with life-threatening diseases such as cancer, complete care sometimes extends to other members of the family. That’s the idea behind the Help Us Give Support (HUGS) program at Siteman Cancer Center. Members of HUGS, children between the ages of 4 and 12, recently took part in an Arts as Healing event to create decorative scarves for their mother or grandmother fighting breast cancer. Read more from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Scientists have identified an important link between kidney damage and cardiac problems, creating new possibilities for treating the primary cause of death in kidney disease patients.

Vegetarians who don’t cook their food have abnormally low bone mass, usually a sign of osteoporosis and increased fracture risk. But a research team at the School of Medicine also found that raw food vegetarians have other biological markers indicating their bones, although light in weight, may be healthy.

What makes a woman a woman?The mysteries of both human sex chromosomes have now been laid bare with the publication of the sequence of the human X chromosome in the journal Nature. Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in England led the effort to sequence the X, with significant contributions from the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University.

Such analysis may one day be a primary diagnostic tool for physicians deciding on a treatment course for trauma and other critically ill patients. More medical news

Gesturing as if turning sections of a large object over his head, Michael A. Province, Ph.D., tries to communicate the scope of his research field. “It’s like we’re all manipulating different parts of a huge, multidimensional Rubik’s cube,” he says. By “we,” Province means the worldwide community of geneticists, biostatisticians, physicians and molecular biologists who […]