Washington University in St. Louis

A new multidisciplinary center focused on biomolecular condensates — distinct molecular communities that make up the building blocks of life — has launched at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.The…

by Jim Dryden Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a five-year, $11.7 million grant to study human genes and nerve cells to better understand how cells transmit pain and to identify…

Washington University in St. Louis is combining two of its signature graduate fellowship programs, effective fall 2023. The newly formed Ann W. and Spencer T. Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowship (OCF) will merge two long-standing programs — the…

Philip H. Dybvig, a banking and finance expert at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of three economists to share the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday, Oct. 10.A photo…

At birth, the children appear healthy. But within a few years, toddlers and young children with infantile Batten disease, a rare but fatal brain disorder, succumb to blindness, seizures, dementia and become unable to walk. No cure exists,…

Scientists have identified a handful of gene mutations that cause or contribute to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. But many scientists suspect that other DNA changes may help drive Alzheimer’s-related damage to brain cells and lead to…

Venus is Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. It may have been the first habitable world in our solar system, but it’s not any longer. The intense pressure, heat and corrosive gases of Venus’ surface are enough to disable even the most…

Before a community hospital is stretched thin with COVID-19-patients, even before antigen tests — no matter how rapid — return results, there is one place that may be able to capture the number of COVID-19 infections in a community.A new…

In September, Washington University in St. Louis began using a new admissions system for most of its doctoral, master’s and professional programs. The launch of Slate, which is also the system used by undergraduate admissions, is part of…

Do you know what you wish?Are you certain what you wishIs what you want?— Cinderella’s motherCinderella wishes for festivals. Jack wishes for food. The baker and the baker’s wife wish for a child. Little Red Riding Hood wishes for a…