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May 10, 2012
Why There Are No Crashes on Your Brain's Information Superhighway
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." In a less metaphysical sense, the sign of a well-working brain is the ability of multiple networks to work at the same ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Mizzou Scientists Determine There's No G-Spot -- God Spot, That Is
There has been much debate over the existence of the G-spot. No, not that G-spot. The other one, in the brain, where G stands for God. "The spiritual experience is very complex," says Brick Johnstone, a neuropsychologist at the University of Missouri. Johnstone and four of his colleagues just compl ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2012
Danforth Center Shows Off Awesome New ~~Toy~~ Robot
Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are all aflurry this week over the new toy that just got delivered. Sorry, it's a tool that will advance our understanding of the plant world and affect agriculture and biofuel production and etc., etc., etc., that just happens to come in the fo ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Researchers Discover Marker That Predicts Speed of Mental Decline from Alzheimer's
If you're at all prone to hypochondria, here's another thing to keep you up late worrying: Researchers at Washington University Medical School have discovered a new marker that shows how rapidly your mental faculties will decline, should you develop Alzheimer's. In a recent study, patients with a h ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Wash. U. Doctors Begin Using New Drug-Free Cure for Depression
Electroshock therapy is like a relic from bad fifties science fiction (and sounds scary as hell to boot -- though we admit our opinion, just like everyone else's, has been strongly influenced by the therapy scenes in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Pills make you feel like all you ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
Every Brain is a Critic
Electroshock therapy is like a relic from bad fifties science fiction (and sounds scary as hell to boot -- though we admit our opinion, just like everyone else's, has been strongly influenced by the therapy scenes in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Pills make you feel like all you ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Mizzou Scientists Explore Romance Among Tree Frogs
Springtime, soft breezes, moonlight, music...the perfect setting for seduction, whether you're a romantic-minded human or a tree frog. But don't think the female tree frogs aren't any more picky than humans just because they happen to be, well, frogs. If a female tree frog doesn't like a dude's musi ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Wash. U. Scientists Contemplate the Origins of Life
image viaA field of Dictyostelim discoideum fruiting bodies.Depending on which source you look at, the human body contains anywhere from 50 to 75 trillion cells. Somehow they all manage to work together, carrying out their various functions to keep the whole body alive. How the hell is this p ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
Wash. U. Scientists Reverse Effects of Type 2 Diabetes -- in Mice
image viaA weeklong series of injections for this mouse can reverse the effects of months of bad eating. Can the same happen for humans?For most people, a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes means a lifetime sentence to a regimen of insulin and monitoring for some of the disease's nastiest side effe ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Wash. U. Docs Can Tell You What Happened Last Time You Blacked Out
image viaWhere did it go? The researchers at Wash. U. know.This is a special message for all you folks out there who occasionally drink to excess. A team of researchers at Washington University Medical School has figured out what happened to you last time you blacked out! OK, they can't expl ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Wash. U. Docs Find Underlying Cause of Ovarian Cancer
image viaThis is ovarian cancer. It ain't pretty.It's old news that cancer is caused by mutations in otherwise healthy cells. But where are those mutations? That's what the researchers at Washington University's Genome Institute have been trying to figure out. Earlier this year, a team sequen ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
In the Future, Airplanes Will Run on Pond Scum
image viaIt's bubbly and green and kills fish and now it makes airplanes fly!The logic of this is impeccable: The price of oil -- and airplane fuel -- has gone through the proverbial roof (although at the rate it's going, in a couple of years, flying will become so expensive, nothing will get ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
You Can Now Blame Your Depression on Your Parents and Their Lousy Genes
image viaPeople with depression have some fancy designer genes.It's become a convention -- OK, a cliche -- to blame one's parents for one's failure to achieve fulfillment and self-actualization and all those other things that people go to therapy to attain. But a team of researchers at Washin ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Wash. U. Receives $6.5 Million From Komen Foundation to Find Cure for Breast Cancer
image viaDr. William GillandersSusan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization, announced yesterday that it would give a $6.5 million grant to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine who proposed using genome sequencing to develop personalized v ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
Wash. U. Doctors Decode Breast Cancer DNA -- And Discover It's Way More Complicated Than They Thought
image viaAll forms of breast cancer are not the same.As any woman -- or any casual viewer of boob-centric photos, including Riverfront Times slide shows -- knows, all breasts are not alike. This, it turns out, is also true genetically, and, unfortunately, for breast cancer. After spending se ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
The Latest in Petri Dish Fashion: Designer Intestinal Bacteria
image viaThere's a high proportion of these intestinal bacteria, Firmicutes, in people who have a high-fat, high-sugar diet.We all have a vast collection of bacteria in our intestines, a library, if you will. Most of these bacteria are friendly and helpful, allowing us to digest foods we woul ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Wash. U. Scientists Listen to the Mind at Work on Newfangled Brain Radio
image viaElectrocorticography in action. (Yes, those are electrodes on a human brain.)Dr. Eric Leuthardt, who works at the Washington University School of Medicine, has the coolest toys of anybody in St. Louis: first the Monteris Medical AutoLITT System, a laser-tipped wand that zaps brain tu ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Mizzou Scientists Watch Memories Get Made
image viaScans of the brain at work during the Semantic Fluency Test in which research subjects were asked to think of words from a specific category, like "food" or "animals".In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Heart Failure Gene Discovered...In the Kidney
image viaDr. Gerald W. Dorn IIResearchers at Washington University have identified a gene sequence that indicates a person is at risk for heart failure even before there are any outward signs, like high blood pressure. Surprisingly, this gene isn't connected to the heart. It's related to the ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
New Study Finds Fewer Cases of Food-Borne Illness
E. coli (and other pathogens): Fewer cases, still deadly.The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered its estimate of the annual number of cases of food-borne illness in America, the New York Times reports. This new estimate reckons that each year 48 million people suffer from food p ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Grape Scott! Mizzou Scientists Engineering Fungus-Free Wine Grapes
Missouri has long been one of the world's leading exporters of beer. But now, researchers at the University of Missouri say that vino could be the state's next big alcoholic gift to mankind.The state grape of Missouri -- the Norton variety -- is known for its resistance to powdery mildew, a funga ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It
Space geeks have been crapping their pants since news hit the Interwebs Monday that NASA was holding a press conference "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life." The announcement further defined astrobiology as "the study of the origin ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Ozzy Osbourne's DNA Map is In: He's Anxious and A Planner
Roadrunner RecordsOver the summer, St. Louis-based Cofactor Genomics agreed to participate in a project to map and analyze Ozzy Osbourne's genes. Now the results are in -- and certain mutations found in Ozzy's DNA may explain why he say, bit the head off a bat all those years ago. According ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Wash. U. Researchers Discover Smoking Won't Give You Cancer -- Genetics Will
image viaIf you paid any attention at all in your elementary-school health class, you'd know by now that smoking a lot leads to lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). But what leads some people to smoke more than others? An international team of researchers, led by two ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Just How Tall Were the Dinosaurs?
Everybody knows the dinosaurs were super-tall, but a University of Missouri anatomy professor has just proven everybody wrong. The dinosaurs weren't just super-tall. They were super-duper tall. The extra height, Casey Holliday and his team of researchers discovered, came from cartilage between the d ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Latest Lucky Stimulus Recipient Wash. U. Gets $14.3 Million for Genomic Data Center
Image sourceThe little green and purple spots are breast cancer genes. The federal government just gave Wash. U. $14.3 million to track down more cancer genes.A $14.3 million stimulus grant to Washington University Medical School's center for genomics in the Central West End will create 350 new j ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Your Next Trip to the Airport May Be Fueled By Algae
Image ViaThe imaginary algae Ferrari of the future St. Louis-based conglomerate Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going green. Algae green, to be specific. The company is converting its entire fleet of airport shuttle buses -- more than 600 vehicles -- to biofuel. For now soybeans will provide the power b ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Merge, Emerge
Image ViaThe imaginary algae Ferrari of the future St. Louis-based conglomerate Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going green. Algae green, to be specific. The company is converting its entire fleet of airport shuttle buses -- more than 600 vehicles -- to biofuel. For now soybeans will provide the power b ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Weird Science: Wash U. Researchers Breed Insomniac Fruit Flies
pbs.orgNotice the bloodshot eyes of this fruit fly. Must be an insomniac.Scientists at Washington University have bred generations of insomniac fruit flies they hope will shed light on sleeplessness in humans. The insects average only about one hour of sleep per day -- or less than 10 percent of the ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2009
Wash U Research Links "Gut Microbes" With Malnutrition
www.cs.stedwards.eduTurns out that William Chignoli (subject of this week's RFT feature) isn't the only guy in town working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to try and make the world a better place.Scientists from Washington University's Schools of Medicine and Genome Sciences recently r ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2009
17-Year-Old Chesterfield Scientist is Smarter Than You
courtesy of the Academy of ScienceWilliam Sun is smarter than you. He is now also richer (probably). He got to meet President Obama. And he can explain molecular biology in terms so plain that even a newspaper reporter can understand. William Sun will probably take over the world.Sun, a 17-year-old ... More >>
Dining
February 11, 2009
How Do You Like Your Oysters?: This Valentine's weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come
courtesy of the Academy of ScienceWilliam Sun is smarter than you. He is now also richer (probably). He got to meet President Obama. And he can explain molecular biology in terms so plain that even a newspaper reporter can understand. William Sun will probably take over the world.Sun, a 17-year-old ... More >>
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September 4, 2008
The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9.4
courtesy of the Academy of ScienceWilliam Sun is smarter than you. He is now also richer (probably). He got to meet President Obama. And he can explain molecular biology in terms so plain that even a newspaper reporter can understand. William Sun will probably take over the world.Sun, a 17-year-old ... More >>
News
July 30, 2008
Readers dish the straight poop on pigs, cougars and cheese plates
courtesy of the Academy of ScienceWilliam Sun is smarter than you. He is now also richer (probably). He got to meet President Obama. And he can explain molecular biology in terms so plain that even a newspaper reporter can understand. William Sun will probably take over the world.Sun, a 17-year-old ... More >>
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May 6, 2008
John Roderick: Behind My Music, Volume III
courtesy of the Academy of ScienceWilliam Sun is smarter than you. He is now also richer (probably). He got to meet President Obama. And he can explain molecular biology in terms so plain that even a newspaper reporter can understand. William Sun will probably take over the world.Sun, a 17-year-old ... More >>
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April 16, 2008
Prehistoric Pathway
Animatronics dions rule the zoo
Calendar
March 5, 2008
Froggone It!
Animatronics dions rule the zoo
Dining
February 13, 2008
Malcolm never saw a frog’s leg he couldn’t keep down, until...
Animatronics dions rule the zoo
Blogs
December 19, 2007
The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 12/19
Animatronics dions rule the zoo
Calendar
September 26, 2007
Genome: The Secret of How Life Works
Animatronics dions rule the zoo
Blogs
July 26, 2007
What’s in Pandora’s box? The RIAA, Journey and Karl Marx, among others.
Animatronics dions rule the zoo
News
July 25, 2007
Buzzkill
See all those little suckers? Did you know that they're an invasive species and a linchpin of modern agriculture? That they're dying off by the million and no one's sure why?
Calendar
May 30, 2007
Keg-Stand for Science!
See all those little suckers? Did you know that they're an invasive species and a linchpin of modern agriculture? That they're dying off by the million and no one's sure why?
Calendar
January 18, 2006
The ALT Has Proof
See all those little suckers? Did you know that they're an invasive species and a linchpin of modern agriculture? That they're dying off by the million and no one's sure why?
Calendar
March 30, 2005
The Wearing of the Plaid
Tartan Day comes early
Music
July 14, 2004
Manda & the Marbles
Friday, July 16; Way Out Club
News
November 19, 2003
Gland of Opportunity
Dr. William J. Catalona built an unrivaled repository of blood and tissue samples. Washington University wants to keep it. Now a judge will decide: Who owns the prostates?
News
October 22, 2003
Genome Whiz!
Learn fun things about the humble mole rat, getting busted in East St. Louis and why our city wants to have the blues
Film
May 17, 2000
Dinosaur
Directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton
News
November 3, 1999
PETER AND THE WOLF
Why Missouri Botanical Garden's Peter Raven, world-renowned environmentalist, courts Monsanto's favor, boosts its biotech and takes its money
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