Stephen Stone, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at WashU Medicine, was awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a genetic condition that causes the ...

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Sept. 25, several faculty members in Arts & Sciences and ...

The antenna of a locust in Barani Raman's lab is equipped with collagen foam containing nanomaterials that can detect and collect trace chemical signatures. Raman and colleague Srikanth Singamaneni, ...

Farshid Guilak, the Mildred B. Simon Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Christine Pham, MD, professor of medicine ...

Stefani Weeden-Smith, a veteran St. Louis community engagement strategist, has been appointed assistant director of community engagement in the Office for Socially Engaged Practice in WashU’s Sam Fox ...

Artificial intelligence could help counter election misinformation at the same speed that false narratives spread, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis and the California ...

The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of ...

A nationally recognized pediatric endocrinologist, Madhusmita Misra, MD, pioneered research on bone density and metabolic ...

Fructose consumption has increased considerably over the past five decades, largely due to the widespread use of high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in beverages and ultra-processed foods. New ...

Since returning to his native Ukraine more than 30 years ago, alumnus Alex Frishberg has faced many dangers — most recently, a brutal war. Alex Frishberg, JD '88, lives and writes in war-torn Ukraine.

WashU Medicine researchers are helping transform mind-bending psychedelics into treatments for devastating mental illnesses. Ginger Nicol, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry at WashU Medicine, ...

In the verdant mountains of the Kaffa region of Ethiopia, no one can harvest the wild coffee plants without permission. “They make sure that the wild coffee is protected. Nobody can cut it,” said ...