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Big Boi Head in Belly - Big Boi, digital image, by Libby Reuter		1,000 Genomes		3-wheeler		4-D Phantom Parag Parikh and Kristen Lechleiter set up the 4D Phantom to simulate the motion of tumors in the lung.
"The Hobbit" skull Photo by Robert Boston. "The Hobbit" skull		A compound that halts nerve cell activity only when exposed to light glows in this image of two nerve cells. Scientists hope the compound will one day A compound that halts nerve cell activity only when exposed to light glows in this image of two nerve cells. Scientists hope the compound will one day be adapted for use as an epilepsy treatment.		Abdominal cross section, DHEA Abdominal fat reduction with DHEA use		achilles tendon Anatomical diagram of the Achilles tendon.
ADHD and smoking graph Smoking while pregnant combined with genetic factors greatly increases the risk of severe ADHD.		ADHD graph		ADHD pills		Adult and child brains As brain regions 'grow up' (red) they are used more frequently. Those structures that 'grow down' (blue) have a lower level of activity in adults.
AIDS pill		Alcoholism		Alex Denes-'guiding light' Photo by Robert Boston (From left) Alex Denes, M.D., and John Welch, M.D., Ph.D., a fellow in hematology/oncology, visit with patient Richard Wall at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.		Alex Evers with Joseph Steinbach Alex Evers (left) examines proteins with colleague Joseph Steinbach.
alzheimer mri At the time of the first MRI scans, the turquoise color shows areas of the hippocampus in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease that are shaped differently than in healthy older people. Two years later, even more changes have occurred, represented by the purple color		APT102 Large tumors grew in bones from untreated mice (left). But when platelet activity was blocked with aspirin and APT102, bones had much smaller tumors (right).		Arie Perry performs for students Dawn Majors, Post-Dispatch Perry sings for his students about Parkinson's disease to the tune of "Torna a Surriento."		Army soldiers U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Soldiers currently stationed at Camp Liberty, Iraq, unload 105mm M119 Howitzer rounds.
Art show 07		Arts as Healing - patient Photo by Tim Parker A patient and his wife paint tiles through the Arts as Healing program.		Arts as Healing - wall Photo by Tim Parker Tiles painted by cancer patients and their families		Asthma - Alair System Asthmatx illustration A bronchoscope delivers thermal energy to airways during a bronchial thermoplasty treatment.
Asthmatic air passage Normal lung air passage (left) and asthmatic lung air passage after viral infection		atkinson lab John Atkinson, M.D., the Samuel Grant Professor of Medicine at the Washington University		B cells		Baboon and Conroy
Baboons forage		Baboons lazy		Baby		Baby sleeping On their backs is the safest way for babies to sleep.
Baby with milk		Baby with mom A baby's first relationship is the most important.		Baby's hand One in eight babies are born prematurely.		Bacteria demonstration Bob Boston/WUSTL Med Photo Luke Starnes, graduate student in medicine and a member of the Young Scientist Program, talks with Ellen Wright about micro-organisms, in the lobby of the McDonnell Sciences Building.
barry, brian hammond Kidney recipient Barry Hammond (left) and his brother, kidney donor Brian.		Beck, Roger Jr. (Dawn Majors/P-D) Roger Beck Jr., 29, of Sikeston, Mo. receives a kiss from 4-year old son Denton Beck.		Belly fat An abdominal MRI scan showing the locations of subcutaneous and visceral fat		bifocal image Use of a new polymer may eliminate the need for bifocals in some patients.
BioMed 21 groundbreaking (L-R) Steven Lipstein, Larry Shapiro, Mark Wrighton and Paul McKee Jr. break ground at the site of the new building.		BioMed 21 rendering-1		BioMed 21 rendering-2		biomed group Richard K. Wilson, PhD, John F. McDonnell, Philip Needleman, PhD, Dean Larry J. Shapiro, MD, and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, PhD, were among those leading the November 17, 2003 press conference that announced the launch of BioMed 21, Washington University?s new strategic research initiative.
BioMed Radio		BioMed Radio - RSS feed		Bipolar chart This chart compares the levels of impairment in seven areas of manic children compared to those with manic depressive disorder (MDD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).		BJH advocacy program Photo by Kelly Pahl Tyler Merchant talks with Noel Tate, who is recovering after heart surgery.
bk receptors A fluroescent-tagged antibody bearing silver and gold particles reveals I and L bradykinin receptors lit in a ghostly green glow on the surfact of cultured human cells		blood syringe		Blood vessel clogged Image courtesy of FDA A blood vessel that has become narrowed by build-up from cholesterol and other substances		Blood vessels An angiogram, or X-ray image of blood vessels
Blunt with patient after signing cancer bill Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt with patient Rick Allenbrand of Stockton, Mo., after Blunt signed Senate Bill 567, which requires health insurers to cover primary health-care costs for patients involved in approved phase II clinical trials for cancer. Blunt signed the bill July 7 at the Siteman Cancer Center, where Brand was treated for leukemia by John Dipersio, M.D., Ph.D., the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Oncology in Medicine, chief of the Division of Oncology and deputy director of the Siteman Cancer Center.		Bo Kennedy with patient		Boiling Water		Bone weakening Dark areas (marked with arrows) in the first image show a process of bone renewal and strengthening. The second image shows a reduction in this process after a cortisone injection.
Books to Africa (Left to right) Damien Fair, Binyam Nardos, Sam Craig, Rahel Nardos, and Tracy Nicholson show the books delivered to medical students in Ethiopia.		brain - cognitive areas In these brain images, the areas most active during cognitive tasks are highlighted.		Brain - effects of alcohol Shown are brain sections of neonatal mice exposed to ethanol. Mice deficient in certain enzymes (right) exhibit much more neurodegeneration as indicated by the black material in the dying neurons.		Brain activity
Brain affected by depression MRI of hippocampus affected by depression.		Brain atlas Abnormal folding patterns of the cerebral cortex in Williams Syndrome are displayed on a lateral view (left) and midline view (right) of a 'surface-based' atlas.		Brain captains Scientists exploring the upper reaches of the brain's command hierarchy were astonished to find not one but two brain networks in charge, represented by the differently-colored spheres on the brain image above. Starting with a group of several brain regions implicated in top-down control (the spheres on the brain), they used a new brain-scanning technique to identify which of those regions work with each other. When they graphed their results (bottom half), using shapes to represent different brain regions and connecting brain regions that work with each other with lines, they found the regions grouped together into two networks. The regions in each network talked to each other often but never talked to brain regions in the other network.		Brain cooling
brain for GE Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University		Brain map Red zones in this brain map show regions most active when processing erotic visual materials.		Brain model Post-Dispatch photo		Brain scan - serotonin Areas of red and yellow show increased uptake of the altanserin tracer due to binding to the serotonin receptors.
Brains at 150th Bob Boston/WUSTL Med Photo Marios Giannakis 2nd year med student and Maniel Liu also 2nd year members of the Young scientist program show visitors a real human brain.		Breast cancer researcher with patient Researcher Tiffany Tibbs discusses breast cancer treatment with a patient.		Breast cancer tissue Courtesy of the National Cancer Institute Breast cancer cells stained brown using an antibody that recognizes malignant cells		Brown, Oren L. Oren Brown
Bruce Lindsay discussing a patient Photo by Robert Boston Bruce Lindsay (left) discusses selecting a defibrillator for a patient with Dennis Fogarty.		Bye Bye Birdie		Calf muscles Injecting calf muscles with Botox may alleviate pressure on foot ulcers.		camels Assab and Massawa, the two camels used for the caffeine study
cancer therapy research Bob Boston		Cassette The Story Link program lets prisoners talk to their children via cassette tapes.		Cataracts - 1 This eye of a 72-year-old woman shows normal yellowing of the eye's lens due to age-related nuclear sclerotic cataract.		Cataracts - 2 The other eye of the same woman shows opacification due to more severe nuclear sclerotic cataract two years after vitrectomy surgery on this eye.
Cataracts - both Left: This eye of a 72-year-old woman shows normal yellowing of the lens due to age-related nuclear sclerotic cataract. Right: The same woman's other eye shows opacification due to more severe nuclear sclerotic cataract two years after vitrectomy.		Catheter ICU personnel are instructed in proper placement of catheters to lower infection risk.		catheter with table Faddis and colleagues use a catheter with a magnet at its tip (top image) and the Stereotaxis magnetic guidance system machine (below) employs electromagnets that surround the torso of the patient and help guide the magnetic catheter as it moves inside the heart.		Cell Metabolism cover - May 2005 Courtesy of Cell Metabolism Cover of May 2005 issue of Cell Metabolism
Cell nuclei after radiation These images of cell nuclei treated with damaging radiation show that in the absence of MDC1, repair proteins (bright green areas) are inhibited from gathering at the sites of DNA damage.		Center for Advanced Medicine/Siteman Center for Advanced Medicine, home of Siteman Cancer Center		Cerebral palsy - kid Jan Brunstrom demonstrates martial arts moves with cerebral palsy patient Emma Price.		cervical cancer
Cervical tumor PET		chapman mug		checking heart		CheckSite bracelet CheckSite bracelets are designed to prevent wrong-site surgeries.
Chemcial chaperones "Chemical chaperones" might be able to help a mutant protein (green) do its job of removing excess cholesterol (blue) from cells.		Cheryl Bergin (17) - P-D		Cheryl Bergin - P-D By Brittanie Williams/St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dr. Cheryl Bergin, who was anorexic for 14 years, says that "it was nothing less than a miracle that I changed my life around." Bergin, an ophthalmologist, is working on a project she calls "Hungry Eyes," which researches the effects on eyes due to anorexia.		chest x-ray Chest x-ray of a lung affected by pneumonia
Chickens Bird flu hits livestock the hardest		Child at school Successful students have help at home.		child eating apple		Child running
Child study logo		Child study map		Child with Backpack		Chimpanzee
Cigarette Why wait? Quit today.		Cigarette with lipstick		Class of '08 Robert Boston		Clinical Simulation Center - David Murray David Murray demonstrates defibrillation techniques to a group of students in the Clinical Simulation Center.
Clint the chimp Clint's DNA was used to sequence the chimp genome.		clousemug		Club foot Clubfoot, one of the most common birth defects, affects 1 in 1,000 children.		Cochlear implant NIH Illustration A cochlear implant stimulates the hearing nerves in the inner ear.
Cochlear implant rendering image courtesy of Advanced Bionics Cochlear implant		College kids eating		colons A typical Crohn?s patient regularly deals with diarrhea, abdominal pain and intra-abdominal infections. Frequently, the disease closes off sections of the intestine, and patients need surgery to eliminate blockages. ?I look forward to my shot each day. It?s hard to put into words how wonderful I feel. I feel like a normal person.? KELLY PERKOWSKI ?At first blush, the idea of priming the immune system in patients with Crohn?s disease sounds sort of like throwing oil on a fire. Oddly enough, it appears to work.? JOSHUA KORZENIK, MD ? Patients treated in the GM-CSF pilot study showed a decrease in inflammation: an inflamed colon before treatment (top) and after, showing no pathologic abnormality.		Commencement Photo by Robert Boston
Commencement Photo by Robert Boston		Conroy and Neufeld Robert Boston		Conroy, Glenn and Jane Glenn Conroy and Jane Phillips-Conroy with their awards for outstanding teaching		COPD The pink color in the image on the right highlights cells producing excess mucus, a symptom of COPD. The image on the left shows normal lung tissue.
Cori stamp		Cori, Carl and Gerty Carl and Gerty Cori		Cori, Gerty		Corn
Corn		cornea Human nuclear cataract (as seen through a slit lamp)		Cornelius with patient		Corpus Delicti poster
CORTEX building Rendering of the new CORTEX building		Cotton candy Bob Boston/WUSTL Med Photo Steve Kohler, medical public affairs, takes a break from setting up signs to enjoy some cotton candy and Ted Drewes ice cream specially made for the Sesquicentennial with his wife, Peggy, and daughter Roxanne.		Couch potatoe By Sarah Conard, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Maria Littrell works out at Lionheart Fitness in Richmond Heights. Littrell, who lost weight through gastric bypass surgery, does strength training and cardio exercise twice a week.		Couch potatoe - 2 St. Louis Post-Dispatch image
Cox Maze Reunion		Cox-Maze procedure This illustration of the Cox-Maze procedure shows the ablation lines in the left atrium.		Cytoskeleton The internal "skeleton" (in red) of cells is altered by exposure to high fat.		default network Diagrams map the connections between brain regions involved in the default network, a brain network linked to contemplative thought. Results from brain scans of children, on the left, reveal a less intricate, looser network than that found in adults, shown on the right. The green oval encloses a pair of regions important to the network, the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex. These two regions are highlighted on the brain slices below the diagrams.
Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Homeland Security		Depressed Child		Depressed woman Is depression rooted in our genes?		Diabetic mouse heart The brighter signal over the transgenic heart indicates that fat uptake and metabolism are greatly increased.
Diabetic mouse heart - 2 These ultrasound images show the pattern of blood flow into mice hearts. The pattern is distorted in the transgenic mice, indicating that the main pumping chamber is stiff.		Diamond, Michael - lab		Diemer with patient Photo by Robert Boston Diemer discusses patient Christine Filcoff's treatment after a bone density test.		DiPersio, John Dr. John DiPersio and cancer patient Elizabeth Grubesich.
DNA ligase DNA ligase encircles the DNA double helix.		DNA molecule Rad9 acts as a DNA "repairman."		DNA rainbow A rainbow of computer data shows a blueprint of humankind		Doctor with chart
Donuts What exactly does the fat from these donuts do to your body?		Dorsal horm neurons Neurons (shown here in green) fire more frequently in mice lacking Kv4.2 potassium channels.		Down syndrome Early treatment is key with Down syndrome.		Dr. Lowe Bob Boston/WUSTL photo Dr
Drawing by an autistic child Drawing by an autistic child		drivers with bug Bob Boston/WUSM Photo Janice Gober's mother, Rosemary Ralls, now rides in the passenger's seat.		Drugs - push-pills		Drunk woman
DXA scan DXA scans of a male patient with osteoporosis		e coli		E. Coli sticks to host cell Scientists have learned new details of how the bacterium E. Coli (yellow) makes the sticky fibers or pili it needs to stick to host cells and begin an infection.		Ear hurts
ecoli Photo courtesy of Scott Hultgren, John Heuser and Robyn Roth A micrograph reveals an E. coli bacterium (in green) that is part of a community of bacteria known as a biofilm.		ecoli Courtesy of Scott Hultgren and Chia Hung		EKG		Elderly people exercising
Ellis, Matthew working-labcoat Ellis utilizes genetic analysis to guide cancer therapy.		embryo cells Mouse embryos stained to show MOF (green) and its histone tag (red) demonstrate that MOF is essential for cell proliferation. Embryos that don't have the gene for MOF (bottom row) are beginning to die by the time they reach the 32-cell stage of development.		emergency room patient Patients in intensive care units are kept alive with breathing machines, dialysis, tube feeding and other extraordinary measures until their bodies can begin to recover from critical illness or traumatic injury.		engsberg
Eye		Eye - macular degeneration Abnormal blood vessels and hemorrhage under the retina in wet macular degeneration		Eye, blue		Face lab Gravenhorst's new ear is repositioned during an office visit to the maxillofacial prosthetics lab.
Farrell Learning and Teaching Center		Fat receptor Structure of the fatty acid receptor CD36		Father and daughter arguing Adolescence can be trying times for the whole family.		Faustman, Denise Jodi Hilton / New York Times Dr. Denise Faustman has cured diabetes in mice. Humans are next on her agenda.
Feet on scales		Field turf measurements Heather Parrott and Jay Webb measure accelerations on a frozen field.		Firefly Protein Dance Glowing firefly light reveals interacting proteins.		Fireworks Medical experts say to leave fireworks to professionals.
Fish Eating fish may help reduce the risk for dementia.		Flance, I. Jerome St. Louis Jewish Light Flance		FluoroParticlesMRI This image combines three MRI scans of a mouse: one is a typical scan showing internal organs, and the second two are scans tuned to the frequency of fluorine-laced nanoparticles (colored red and green).		Football - hands
Football practice Summer practices can put young athletes at risk for heat exhaustion.		Fruit and Vegetables		Fruit flies - sleep study Scientists testing sleep's effects on learning have devised a model that presents fruit flies with a simple choice: fly into a lighted vial or a darkened one.		Fruit fly Drosophila melano
Fruit fly eye slides The compound eye of a fruit fly (left) and a micrograph of the cells that make up the eye		fumagillin nanoparticles Nanoparticles (yellow) show that a treated tumor (left) has less blood vessel growth than an untreated tumor.		Gardening - Post-Dispatch Jerry Naunheim Jr., Post-Dispatch Nearly all of the senses, but especially touch, smell and sight, get used in some of the newer cognitive therapies for Alzheimer?s.		Gene cluster A look at the activity of 24 genes in 52 patients as those genes respond to the drug 5-fluorourancil
Genetics in the ICU		gila slide		Ginseng		glowing mouse Image courtesy of David Piwnica-Worms
Gov. Blunt Photo by Robert Boston Gov. Matt Blunt		Graham Colditz at computer Graham Colditz and the YourDiseaseRisk.com Web site		Gray matter The MRI scans on top show normal gray matter, while those on the bottom show abnormal gray matter.		gut microbes Credit: Andrei Tchernov A stomach full: Gut microorganisms that aid digestion may partly determine their host's leanness
H. pylori bacterium H. pylori bound to stomach tissue		Halloween costume Defining the line between fun and frightened		Hamburger Super-sizing has consequences.		Hamburger, woman eating
hammerman in lab Marc R. Hammerman (right) and Feng Chen examine sequencing data for a rat into which an embryonic pig pancreas was transplanted.		hancock, amy		Hand transplant Image courtesy of Jewish Hospital; Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center; and University of Louisville Limb transplantation involves several kinds of tissue.		hand with IV
Hearing loss		Hearing Loss 2		Heart muscle cells Bright areas in this image highlight the junctions between heart muscle cells.		Heart patient
Heart valve Side view, valve open, and top view, valve closed.		Heart valve Courtesy Edward Lifesciences		Heart valve surgery John Lasala and Ralph Damiano Jr. work together on the first surgery in the PARTNER trial at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Jan. 15.		Heart, 3-D
heat graph Fluid breaks should be scheduled for all practices and become more frequent as the heat and humidity levels rise. Add 5??F to the temperature between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from mid-May to mid-September on bright, sunny days.		Hip joint model Surgeons cut and reposition the bones in the hip socket to return patients to pain-free function.		Hip with screws		Histamine stain A Peyer's patch, a structure in the small intestine that helps detect and defend against invaders, produces histamine (labeled with an antibody that glows green in this image) in response to infection by the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica.
Hobbit brain 1 of 3 Right frontal view with red brain cast of LB1 encased in transparent image of LB1?s skull.		Hobbit brain 2 of 3 Right frontal view of pink brain cast of LB1 showing through transparent skull.		Hobbit brain 3 of 3 Frontal view of transparent skull that shows the encased brain cast of LB1.		Hockey player - child Protective gear helps prevent injuries.
Holiday Food		Homeless man		Hot kettle on stove		housing conditions Good housing in St. Louis (above) contrasted with poor housing nearby.
HPV particles		Hypertrophied heart Echocardiograms show that the thickness of left ventricular (LV) walls in the hypertrophied heart (left) are nearly twice that of the normal heart.		Islets Islets isolated from a rat pancreas		Itch gene The "itch" gene (dark spots) is expressed in a very small number of neurons in the spinal cord.
IV drips		Joggers		John Lasala operating (P-D photo) Gabriel B. Tait/P-D Dr. John Lasala, director of interventional cardiology and cardiac catheterization at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and other doctors are using stents to repair the ravages of heart disease without opening the chest.		Jonathan D. Gitlin Jonathan Gitlin will serve as director of the new Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics.
Karl, Irene and Michael Irene and Michael Karl		Keith Brandt in surgery		Kerri Morgan Photo by Jennifer Silverberg, Riverfront Times Kerri Morgan		Kid doctors 2 Bob Boston/WUSTL Med Photo Alexis Dallas and T.J. Lucas Play dress up and the Kids Corner. The students take the children's picture in the outfits and give them to them.
Kid doctors1 Bob Boston/WUSTL Med Photo At the Kids Corner children dress up like doctors. left to right Walter Chan 4hth year med student Alexis Dallas T.J. Lucas Monica Ghe 1st year med student.		Kid scratching		Kidney damage With a key protein disabled, a pair of kidney filtering units can't keep antibodies (shown in red) from building up in the filter.		Kidney Dialysis Photo by Bob Boston / WUSTL Photo What might it cost to get more patients off kidney dialysis?
Kidney-Bones		Kids swimming		Knee joint x-ray		Knee patient
kopan		Leonard Berg montage A life in medicine: Leonard Berg, MD, fresh out of medical school, and later in life as he looked back on a long and distinguished career.		Lindsay, Bruce (Kevin Manning/P-D) Dr. Bruce Lindsay sits on the bed of machine that magnetically guides a metal-tipped catheter through the body. The machine is made be Stereotaxis, a biotech startup company.		Lipid coat
Liver cells The large globules in the liver cells on the left are characteristic of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. The image on the right shows normal liver cells.		livercombo Image courtesy of William C. Chapman, M.D. Chapman monitors his surgical instrument's position on corresponding CT scans during liver surgery . This is performed using image-guided techniques that track location, including infrared -emitting diodes located on the instrument handle.		Lmx1b mutant mice		lonestartick Image courtesy of CDC Lonestar tick
lowe in surgery		Luby, Joan with interview puppets		Lung images Illustration of a lung volume reduction surgery		Lung transplant surgery - Huddleston Charles Huddleston performs a pediatric lung transplant.
Lung tumor Lung tumors from mutant mice show an abundance of abnormal, undifferentiated cells.		Lung Tumor Lung cancer tumor to be treated with radiation.		Lung volume		Lustman with patient
magnetic catheter Faddis and colleagues use a catheter with a magnet at its tip combined with a magnetic guidance system machine to help guide the magnetic catheter as it moves inside the heart.		Malnourished kids Micah Manary Mothers at Montfort Health Centre in Nchalo, Malawi give their malnourished children a trial feeding of peanut butter food as part of Project Peanut Butter, a program developed by Dr. Mark Manary of Washington University.		Mammogram On a mammogram, LCIS and ALH typically look like small deposits of calcium.		Mammogram
Mammography Van Claudia Burris		Man lighting cigarette		Man with needle Poorly controlled blood glucose levels can negatively affect blood flow to the heart.		Manary in Malawi
Manual of Medical Therapeutics		Map - Neighborhood Conditions		Martini Can alcohol prevent food poisoning?		Matthew Dobbs with X-ray Matthew Dobbs
Med balloon setup Bob Boston/WUSTL Med Photo (From left) Glenda Wiman, assistant dean and assistant vice chancellor for special programs, adjusts balloons with Cami Taylor, programs specialist, in front of the Center for Advanced Medicine.		Melanoma Every year, an estimated 6,800 Americans will die from melanoma.		Melissa and Aaron Straube Straube		mennerick neuron In this micrograph of a neuron, green dye highlights proteins in the tiny spheres that release glutamate, an important chemical messenger linked to nerve cell damage and death during stroke.
Milk and cheese		Millbrandt, Jeffrey Millbrandt		mind body logo		Morgan, Kerri Morgan
Mosquito 02		mouse - growth factor The growth factor G-CSF caused bone tumors to increase in size in lab mice. The mouse on the left did not receive G-CSF. The mouse on the right did.		Mouse ischemia In these laser-doppler images, red color indicates better blood flow in a mouse lacking CD47 (left) than in a normal mouse.		Mouse legs
Mouse melanoma - 1 These are images of the same melanoma tumor. The top image is an MRI without the use of the nanoparticles. The bottom one shows the tumor lighted up by nanoparticles.		Mouse X-ray Mice with Tax-induced leukemia/lymphoma develop large tumors and many areas of bone destruction, as shown in this x-ray.		Mummy		Mummy - DNA test (Left to right) Researchers Charles Hildebolt, Li Cao and Anne Bowcock take core samples from the mummy for DNA testing.
mundy linda		Mushroom bodies A micrograph shows the mushroom bodies, structures in the fly brain roughly akin to the human hippocampus, which is involved in learning and memory. When researchers genetically tweaked these structures in the brains of fruit flies, the flies could continue to learn a simple maze even after they had been deprived of sleep.		Nanobialys		Nanomedicine Nanoparticles attached to fibers in a blood clot
Nanoparticles The magnified nanoparticles shown here are actually about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.		Nanoparticles Magnified nanoparticles		Nanoparticles and heart plaque These before (left) and after images show the effects of fumagillin-laden nanoparticles in a rabbit aorta.		Neudecker, Joye Neudecker
Neuron		NIH - Sam Stanley Funding pressures mount for scientists engaged in basic research, such as Samuel Stanley, vice chancellor for research, in his lab with graduate student Ted Oliphant.		Norovirus WU researchers have identified a protein sensor that detects norovirus (shown here), a highly contagious stomach bug that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.		occupational therapy Kevin Lowder/WUSTL Photo Representatives from the Program in Occupational Therapy will be on hand to discuss self-care, injury prevention and adaptation of environments to assist people with disabilities. This will run from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Center for Advanced Medicine on the Medical Campus.
Old man		Old man		Older adults with low vision As part of the Occupational Therapy In-home and Community Home Services program, Perlmutter (left) checks the lighting at a work area of client Gay Hirsch, who has low vision.		Older driver
Older man with nurse		Ortho center plans (From L-R) Richard Gelberman, M.D., Chairman for the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, looks over floor plans for the new orthopedic surgery center with Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., Dean for the School of Medicine, and WUSTL Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.		Ortho surgery center - exterior Photo by Jason Merrill		Ortho surgery center - first surgery Photo by Robert Boston Richard H. Gelberman, M.D., the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of orthopedic surgery and chief of orthopedic surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, performs the first operation in the new Washington University Orthopedics and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Outpatient Orthopedic Center.
Osteopetrosis foot X-ray of a foot affected by osteopetrosis.		Osteoporosis St. Louis Post-Dispatch		OT ranked first From left to right: Student Ryan Bailey; Carolyn Baum, Director of the Program in Occupational Therapy; Dean Larry Shapiro; student Catherine Roche; and student Eliza Prager		outgrowth from a superior cervical ganglion Outgrowth from a superior cervical ganglion explant in cell
Outlook Header		Pediatric clinic in Cap Haitien, Haiti Patricia Wolff examines a young patient in her pediatric clinic in Cap Haitien, Haiti.		Peripheral Nerve Surgery St. Louis Post-Dispatch image		pet scan A patient is prepared for a test in a PET scanner
PET scan - mouse tumor Researchers linked anticancer agents to a PET tracer to deliver treatment directly to tumors in mice (red and yellow shows highest amounts of tracer).		PET scan of lung inflammation In this PET image, the arrow shows inflammation of the lungs.		PET scans - cervical tumor In these PET images, a cervical tumor glows brightly before therapy (left), but is no longer visible after therapy.		PET scans, Alzheimer's
Pills		Pills in bottle		Pinsky, Drew Courtesy photo		PKC proteins
Platypus genome Copyright D.Parer & E.Parer-Cook/Auscape The platypus genome explains the creature's fascinating features, from mammals, reptiles and birds.		platypus with download Nicole Duplaix/Getty Images The platypus genome explains the creature's fascinating features, from mammals, reptiles and birds.		Poker chips		Polish, Louis Polish
Pomegranate Pomegranate		Post-Dispatch - Paniello story Courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch		Post-Dispatch - Roger Beck Photo by Dawn Majors, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Roger Beck, 29, of Sikeston, Mo., gets a kiss from 4-year-old son Denton Beck.		PPARa The vagus nerve carries signals to the brain and back that are central to the development of diabetes and high blood pressure.
Pregnant Woman		PT - aquatic		Radiation		RBEL baby Dr. Mario Castro and nurse Michelle Jenkerson visit with RBEL study patient and RSV infection survivor Wil Klages and his mom, Peg Klages.
RBEL baby illiustration		red blood cells In the top panel, flourescently labeled glucocorticoid receptors are distributed throughout the cell. After the addition of steroids (bottom panel), the fluorescent glucocorticoid receptors become localized entirely to the cell's nucleus, where they regulate inflammatory genes.		Red jungle fowl Red jungle fowl		Researchers add mice to list of creatures that sing in the presence of mates Sonograms show mouse tune
retina Courtesy photo Some blind patients, as well as some blind animals, still show pupil constriction in response to light (see Figure). Recent work by the Van Gelder lab, in close collaboration with researchers at Novartis Gene Research Foundation, has shown the protein melanopsin is critical to these non-visual light responses.		Richard Wilson and corn Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., is leading efforts to sequence the corn genome.		Rotator cuff repair Copyright The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Used with permission. Increased cell proliferation in the saline solution group (B) compared to the nicotine group (A)		rotator cuff stitches Strong stitches attach the rotator cuff directly to the shoulder bone.
Runners Millions of Americans enjoy running		Salad Salads and other raw vegetables are staples of a calorie restriction diet.		Salmonella enterica Photo courtesy of Michael McClelland, Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center of San Diego Salmonella enterica		SARS
SARS cells Cells afflicted with SARS.		Saudi health care executives - P-D Robert Cohen, Post-Dispatch Ibrahim Al Hoqail (right), dean of the medical college at King Fahad Medical City, asks a question of instructor Stuart Boxerman (left), in statistics class at the Washington University School of Medicine.		Scales		Scoliosis X-ray An X-ray of a case of scoliosis showing the abnormal curvature of the spine.
Sea squid Courtesy of Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Wisconsin Bobtail squid		Seeing cancer - 1 A laser beam makes its way through a maze of mirrors and positioning equipment that pinpoint light for use in optical imaging.		Seeing cancer - Culver and Welch Joseph Culver, PhD, left, and Michael Welch, PhD, examine a state-of-the-art diffuse optical tomography system at Washington University. The system allows researchers to visualize tumors and assess functional status in small animal models without the use of radiation.		Seeing cancer - Garbow Research associate professor of radiology Joel Garbow, PhD, leads a team of experts developing new ways to visualize and track tumors. The team's equipment includes a small-animal MRI scanner built around a high-field 11.74 Tesla magnet, one of only a few such instruments in the world.
Seeing cancer - MRIs The MRI images of mouse lungs above show, from left, healthy lungs, lungs with fibrotic tissue and lungs with cancerous tumors.		Seizure before and after Images of brain cells taken before (above) and after seizures in live mice reveal loss of spines, small bumps on the surfaces of brain cell branches.		Sextant tool		Sheila Stewart with student Photo by Robert Boston Stewart and postdoctoral student Lionel Guittat discuss a readout of protein expression in cancer cells.
Shriners Hospital for Children Rendering of Shriners Hospital for Children		sick tonsil Magnified image of an infected tonsil		Sickle Cell - Debaun Sen. Jim Talent, Michael DeBaun and Isaac Singleton Jr. help raise awareness about sickle cell disease at a recent stamp dedication ceremony.		Siteman Breast Cancer feature - photo 1 Joanne Knight Breast Health Center manager Susan Kraenzle says Siteman's new mammography van provides a convenient and potentially lifesaving service by offering breast cancer screening in community settings to women who may not otherwise have access to these services.
Siteman Breast Cancer feature - photo 3 In his research and clinical work, medical oncologist Matthew Ellis, MB, BChir, PhD, approaches breast cancer patients like Martha Christmas with an overarching goal: To provide personalized therapy that improves outcomes and preserves quality of life.		Siteman Breast Cancer feature- photo 1 Through their Celebrate Fitness workout event, Missy Fish, left, and Kris Hansford have helped raise thousands of dollars for the Siteman Cancer Center.		Siteman check Photo by Robert Boston Employees from Brown Shoe Company and physicians and staff from the Siteman Cancer Center		Siteman St. Peters Artwork courtesy of Ottolino Winters Huebner
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Sleeping fruit flies Photo by Noah Devereau, Post-Dispatch Sleeping fruit flies pictured through a microscope		Smiling woman		Smokeout - Connie Pliemling Connie Pliemling		Smokeout - Donna McCartney Donna McCartney
Smokeout - Harold Sims Harold Sims		Smokeout - Lee Hoffer Lee Hoffer		Smoker		Smoking with EKG
Sneezer		Social Development Studies		Society of Nuclear Medicine		Soldiers U.S. Army photo The battles don't end with the war for some soldiers.
Spacer		spacer		Speech therapy - mouth		Strep stinger An electron micrograph of strep bacteria infecting muscle tissue
Stroke story illustration An illustration from "When Grandpa Comes Home: A Story about Stroke," an online book that teaches children how to cope when a relative suffers a stroke		Sunscreen		Sunset		Sweat and Hydration Hydration is crucial during summer activities.
Synapse-Neuron Neurons communicate at a synapse		T. gondii parasites T. gondii parasites inside a cell prepare to burst out of their host. Scientists have found a signal that controls this behavior and blocked it, preventing infection in mice. Photo by Jennifer Gordon.		T. gondii reproduction T. gondii imaged just after reproduction inside a host cell. Photo by Wanda Beatty, Microbiology Imaging Facility.		T.S. Park with patients Park hosts a party for cerebral palsy patients from around the world.
Tanning bed		tau protein Tissue from the hippocampal region of the brain is stained brown to display the tau protein. The triangular shapes are neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaques are the round, less dense structures, which contain amyloid-beta, but are stained only for tau in this image.		Tea Some instant tea may be harmful to bones.		Technology Management After developing an implantable defibrillator that gives a much milder jolt to get hearts working again, Igor R. Efimov, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and graduate student Crystal Ripplinger worked closely with OTM to market and license their technology.
Technology Management - Castanho Office for Technology Management co-directors Michael T. Marrah, JD, assistant vice chancellor and associate general counsel, left, and Bradley J. Castanho, PhD, assistant vice chancellor, work together to oversee the legal and business considerations involved in protecting and patenting Washington University?s intellectual property.		Teen Depression Karen Elshout, Post-Dispatch Robin Harris holds a blanket that belonged to her daughter, Kaitlyn, a teen whose depression led her to kill herself.		Teen drinking		Teenage girl The majority of teenage girls agree that pimple-free skin makes their lives easier.
Teenager drinking		Teenagers at a movie Balancing independence and rules can be tough for parents with teenagers.		Telomere dysfunction Chromosomal damage results in fusion (bottom).		Temper tantrum
thoelke w/patient		Thyroid genetics Two markers on the test blot reveal cancer risk. Early removal of the thyroid gland can prevent cancer later in life.		Thyroid surgery A dotted line indicates the former position of the thyroid in this child.		Tim Fleming and Mark Watson Mark Watson, left, and Timothy Fleming examine gels.
TOGA Photo by Tim Parker Sreenivasa Jonnalagadda, M.D., and J. Christopher Eagon, M.D., performing the first TOGA procedure in the United States.		Tourettes brain images		Transplant patient		Tumor gene expression A map of tumors showing the simultaneous expression of many genes
Turkey dinner Holiday food can add unwanted pounds.		Tychsen profile Photo by Robert Boston		Tychsen with patient		UTI The schematic in the center shows how a drug molecule (in the circle) prevents UTIs by stopping pili formation.
UTI scan Scanning electron microscopy image of a filamentous bacterium from a patient with a UTI		UV Safety Month		Vegetables Vegetables are a staple of calorie restriction diets because they have a high percentage of nutrients per calorie.		Vegetables
Veggies on fork		Vein operation - Petersen Jeffrey Petersen performs the VNUS closure procedure.		Vein procedure A fan-shaped catheter delivers radiofrequency energy to the vein wall durIng the minimally invasive VNUS closure procedure.		Visual stimuli 1 of 2 Among the areas activated by tasks designed to stimulate voluntary attention were the intraparietal sulcus and frontal eye fields, both believed to be part of a network of neurons called the dorsal attention system.
Visual stimuli 2 of 2 These are examples of the screens shown to participants in stimulus-driven attention and voluntary attention tests. In the stimulus-driven test, the red square automatically attracted attention. In the voluntary test, participants voluntarily focused their attention on the left or right side of the screen based on which side of the central diamond was thicker.		Wall profile Wall with fistula patients at Evangel Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.		Washing hands		wavelets - cancer
west nile neurons		White Coat 04 1		Wild child		Wolz, Jackie (Dawn Majors/P-D) Physical therapist Jackie Wolz works with Jamey Bollinger, who?s recovering from a spinal injury he suffered this year in Iraq. ?He has an incredible attitude and has always given 100 percent,? Wolz says of Bollinger.
Woman What makes a woman a woman?		Woman drinking a martini		Woman holding ears Tinnitus sufferers should avoid loud noises.		Woman on cell phone
Woman with menu Doctors may soon be prescribing personalized menus for pregnant women.		Woman working out		WUSTL Search		Xrays on screen Computer monitors are replacing xray film in the doctor's office and hospital.
Yin, Frank Frank Yin (right)		Zebrafish Zebrafish		Zhang, Melody / Chinese orphans Melody Zhang holds a computer showing a photo of 8-month-old Lu Han Wen while seated in her office at Children's Hope International, a St. Louis-based adoption agency, where she is an international adoption expert. Lu Han Wen had life-saving heart surgery.