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“No studies to date have looked systematically at the psychiatric effects on people who were employed in the towers,” investigator Carol S. North said.

Peanut butter could save the world. If Mark J. Manary, M.D., has his way, that ooey, gooey lunchbox staple might be some kids’ best hope for the future. Manary, associate professor of pediatrics, started a program two years ago that has saved hundreds of starving children in one of the poorest countries in southern Africa. […]

Photo by Bob BostonMichael R. DeBaun shares a smile with Randice Reed, who has sickle cell disease.An $18.5 million NIH grant will fund a study of blood transfusion therapy as a possible treatment for preventing silent strokes.

Image courtesy of Cindy LustigParts of the brain involved in a “resting network” show large differences between young adults, older adults, and people with Alzheimer’s disease.Researchers tracking the ebb and flow of cognitive function in the human brain have discovered surprising differences in the ability of younger and older adults to shut down a brain network normally active during periods of passive daydreaming. The differences, which are especially pronounced in people with dementia, may provide a clear and powerful new method for diagnosing individuals in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

More than $300 million will be spent to rapidly bring the new knowledge of the human genetic blueprint to the patient’s bedside.

More than $300 million will be spent to rapidly bring the new knowledge of the human genetic blueprint to the patient’s bedside. More about BioMed 21

Photo by Bob BostonJohn F. McDonnell, Larry J. Shapiro, Philip Needleman and Chancellor Mark Wrighton visit at the Nov. 17 news conference announcing BioMed 21.The three-year grant is one of five awarded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to U.S. sequencing centers.

The University is planning a Genome Sciences and Human Genetics Program, a Center for Biological Imaging and a Division of Clinical Sciences.

Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., doesn’t want much — she just aims to discover the cause of schizophrenia and develop a way to prevent it. Barch, associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences and assistant professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine, devotes much of her research to studying schizophrenia in order to better […]

Everett Mendelsohn, one of America’s foremost historians of science, will deliver the Thomas Hall Lecture titled “Dolly and the Historians: Science, Politics and Ethics of Cloning” as part of the Washington University Assembly Series at 4 p.m., Thursday, November 13. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in Rebstock Hall, Room 215, located just east of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth Blvd) on the Washington University campus.