Washington University Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Enrico Di Cera and a team of researchers at the School of Medicine have engineered and patented a modified enzyme that could safely treat heart attack and stroke victims.
The work of the researchers centers on thrombin, a protein that promotes blood coagulation and blood clots, but also activates protein C, a potent anti-coagulant that has the opposite effect.
Former Washington University professor Gerty Cori is one of four American scientists honored by the U.S. Postal Service this year with a set of postage stamps.
Cori’s face and a sketch of the chemical formula she discovered appear on the 41-cent stamp.
Cori, a biochemist, was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine, awarded in 1947 for her research on carbohydrates, which helped explain how energy moves around the body.
Forget public policy and promises for a better tomorrow. It may be more important for Republican candidates to seem competent and trustworthy, and for Democrats to seem intelligent and likeable.
This is according to a new study by Michael Lewis of the Olin Business School, an assistant professor of marketing.
Patients may be able to keep cancerous tumors in check for their whole lives, according to findings by a Washington University School of Medicine team of researchers.
While doctors have long known that cancer can stay dormant for years before coming out of remission, they did not fully understand what made this possible.
Pulse for November 30 – December 2.
Freezing to death and altitude sickness are graduate student David Heeszel’s only worries about going to Antarctica.
Heeszel is one of a five-person team of seismologists going to a region on the continent where no one has ever stepped foot before. Led by Douglas Wiens, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS), the group plans to install seismographs over winter break in order to learn about the underlying structure of a mountain range.
Pulse for Friday, November 9 – Sunday, November 11
Barnes-Jewish Christian Healthcare has donated $30 million to Washington University to help construct an 11-story research building at the School of Medicine.
It is the largest donation the school has ever received for construction of a building, which will house labs and support facilities for “BioMed 21,” an initiative intended to quickly convert research findings into actual treatment.
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