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SLU Researchers to Test New Oral Medication for Multiple Sclerosis
Saint Louis University will be one of
several dozen sites around the world where researchers will study how patients with relapsing-remitting MS respond to the
experimental drug laquinimod.
MS is a disease
in which the body's immune system attacks the protective coating
of nerves, causing symptoms including fatigue, muscle weakness,
numbness, impaired mobility, balance and cognition and vision
disturbances. Researchers say laquinimod seems to modulate how
the immune system works.
About 85 percent of people newly diagnosed with the disease have relapsing-remitting MS, characterized by periodic attacks or flare-ups (relapses), followed by months or even years of little to no signs of the disease (remission).
Gray Design Group Completes Schneider Electric Technology Center
Gray Design
Group was architect for Schneider Electric's multi-million dollar
Technology Center along the Hwy. 40 "Technology Corridor"
in O'Fallon, Mo. The building highlights solutions from many of
Schneider Electric's business units.
Schneider Electric business unit American Power Conversion (APC)
wanted a building with high-tech electronic testing and learning facilities. The resulting 100,000-square-foot facility features a state-of-the-art electronic testing laboratory, classrooms, training rooms, and demonstration and display areas.
The first
floor's Demo Center provides hands-on demonstrations of
equipment functions and capabilities. Gray designed a 50-foot-long curvilinear glass panel with an additional glass display that can be viewed upon entering the atrium lobby.
Algorithm Finds Network—for Genes Or the Internet
At the crux
of human diseases and social networks lies a network, communities
within the network—and farther even, substructures of these
communities. Washington University researchers have published
an algorithm (a recipe of computer instructions) to automatically
identify communities and their subtle structures in various networks.
Many complex systems can be represented as networks, including genetic networks, social networks and the Internet. A community in a genetic network usually contains genes with similar functions, just as a
community on the Web often corresponds to web pages on similar topics.
Using this
tool, researchers may be better able to identify and understand
communities of genes and their networks as well as how they cooperate
in causing diseases such as sepsis, virus infections, cancer and
Alzheimer's disease.
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