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SPRING 2005
Remembering 25 Years
A quarter-century of collaborative, interdisciplinary efforts may
one day
alter the prognosis for Alzheimer’s disease.
A Mystery Unfolds
Fresh insights are emerging into how prions — a new kind of
infectious agent — form and cause disease and may even be connected
to a host of common disorders.
Pain Management
Clinicians and researchers at the Washington University Pain Center use
a multidisciplinary approach to make the management of chronic
pain more
bearable for patients.
Gunning for Fats
Shotgun lipidomics — a faster, more precise
method of analyzing fats in the body — identifies key changes in
body chemistry that are associated with specific diseases.
Picture Page: Fat Cells
The stuff of love handles revealed.
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