The nationally recognized pediatric endocrinologist pioneered research on bone density and metabolic disorders in young women ...

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded a nearly $11 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...

A WashU Medicine project is developing a treatment to reverse tissue damage in osteoarthritis, a leading cause of disability.

Immune cells that normally protect the body from damage by attacking foreign or infected cells are found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders at much higher levels ...

A surgical team at WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center has performed the world’s first-reported robotic combined liver and kidney transplant, extending the benefits of minimally ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered lymph node-like structures in the skull bone marrow of mice for the first time and demonstrated that they act as ...

An AI-enabled software tool that predicts the development of dangerous brain swelling after a stroke has received Breakthrough Device designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Beacon ...

Cancer is often considered a disease of aging. Older adults are at higher risk because they have had more time to accumulate cellular damage that can trigger tumor formation. But as cancer rates in ...

In the dimly lit neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis physicians treat the tiniest patients, babies sleep ...

The advent of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the Nobel-prize–winning technology is being adapted to fight cancer, with mRNA vaccines in ...

A major multi-site clinical trial co-led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that post-thrombotic syndrome — a common and often painful complication ...