Field notes from the Azores, Portugal
Volcanic craters, fumaroles and hot springs mark the rugged landscape of São Miguel island, in the remote Portuguese Azores, where undergraduate students from Washington University in St. Louis traveled to study field geology techniques during their 2018 spring break. In this upper-division field geology course (EPS496), the students advanced their skills in field data collection […]
Global collaboration uncovers new information about disease-causing proteins
Prions are protein aggregates that can be transmitted between cells and are associated with human diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and in neurodegeneration as observed in ALS. Despite the important role of prion-like domains in human diseases, much about them remains a mystery. An international team of researchers, including Rohit Pappu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor […]