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Celebrating spiders is a Halloween thing, but a Missouri man celebrates spiders all year long!

As a conservation educator, David Bruns has an abundance of Missouri spiders for show-and-tell, from the real ones to the thousands of spider photographs.

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GatewaySeq, a genetic test for solid tumors, is a success for WashU School of Medicine

GatewaySeq is a frontline assay to quickly identify common clinically significant mutations and actionable genomic markers to help guide treatment decisions.

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Potential drug kills flesh-eating bacteria and may combat antibiotic-resistant infections

Having a new type of antimicrobial is considered very good news in the fight against dangerous pathogens that are resistant to currently available drugs.

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“Project Squirrel” Shows Dividing Lines Between Missouri’s Two Types of Squirrels

UHSP students lead the St. Louis Squirrel Project by analyzing a full year of camera and location data for the paper.

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Transforming skin cells from patients with Alzheimer’s into brain cells for studies and treatments

Lab-derived neurons accurately reproduce the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, including the amyloid beta buildup, tau protein deposits and neuronal cell death.

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New Drug Targeting Pancreatic Cancer Helps a Missouri Man in his Fight for Survival

Scott Montgomery is one of the first patients at MU Health Care to be offered the new drug in the fight against pancreatic cancer.

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Mercy’s St. Louis hospitals receive national recognition for top-notch stroke care

Mercy Hospital St. Louis and Mercy Hospital South earn the highest designations with American Heart Association.

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Siteman Welcomes Patients to New Building Dedicated Exclusively to All Aspects of Cancer Care

The nine-story, 657,250-square-foot building, on the Washington University Medical Campus, is dedicated to an innovative approach to outpatient cancer care.

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Discovery of a Biomarker for Severe Liver Disease in Infants Can Help Parents and Guide Treatment

Predicting which children with the rare liver disease need lifesaving intervention is possible, for the first time.

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Surprising findings from UMSL’s Cicada Mapping Project

“Total shock to us,” said entomologist Sara Miller, assistant professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The cicada mapping project surprises Miller.

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