Brown biologist Casey Dunn wins NSF’s Waterman Award Biologist Casey Dunn, creator of the “Creaturecast” website, is this year’s winner of the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award. Dunn’s work on animal evolution and the origins of biological complexity, particularly with deep-sea creatures called siphonophores, holds clues for how complex multicellular organisms, including humans, […]

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Finding means C. elegans may aid studies of human infections Biologists’ favorite worm gets viruses  A workhorse of modern biology is sick, and scientists couldn’t be happier. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Jacques Monod Institute in France and Cambridge University have found that the nematode C. elegans, a millimeter-long […]

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Study raises Safety Concerns About Experimental Cancer Approach: Widespread Vascular Tumors, Massive Hemorrhage and Death Reported in Mice A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has raised safety concerns about an investigational approach to treating cancer.  Washington University in St. Louis …     Anti-Notch therapies are being evaluated […]

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