Team performs first pediatric ‘domino’ partial heart transplant in Midwest
The St. Louis Children's Hospital and WashU Medicine Heart Center has become one of only eight programs in the nation to perform a rare, lifesaving procedure in which one donor’s organ is transplanted into a patient, who then becomes a donor for another patient.
‘Pirates’ of the Caribbean: The luck and pluck of three-legged lizards
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Georgia Institute of Technology study lizards who have lost limbs to understand how omnipresent the forces of natural selection can be, and why those lizards appear to be resilient.
WashU chemists reveal new insights into ALS-linked protein
Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team at Washington University have isolated the protein Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.
