by admin | Nov 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
Imagine your genes are like a chemical computer code—and the order of that code, all those genetic ones and zeroes, determine whether you’re healthy…or whether you have or will get cancer. The National Human Genome Research Institute has given...
by admin | Aug 16, 2006 | Health / Medicine
A Washington University pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has found that performing MRI scans on pre-term infants’ brains assists dramatically in predicting the babies future developmental outcomes. Doctor Terrie Inder is among a group of...
by admin | Jul 10, 2006 | Health / Medicine
Eye specialists who work at the Washington University School of Medicine are pleased the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Raj Apte participated in the clinical trials of Lucentis at Johns Hopkins...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Education
Washington University in St. Louis seems ready to ignore pleas from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and follow-through with plans to tear down 105-year-old Prince Hall to make way for an underground parking garage. The university plans to begin demolition...
by admin | Nov 16, 2005 | News
Washington University in St. Louis has been awarded a $29.5-Million project from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy. Doctor Richard Wilson, Director of the school’s Genome Sequencing Center, says the school will...
