The human genome genetic code was decoded on this day 23 years ago with a cooperative effort from medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and a few select other university partners in the project. The breakthrough signaled the start of a new era in medicine, one that held the promise of novel, …
Phoebe W. Couzins of St. Louis became Missouri’s first female law school graduate when she graduated from the Washington University Law Department on this day in 1871. Couzins was an outspoken supporter of women’s right to vote. She later was appointed the nation’s first female U.S. Marshal in 1887. Her parents were John E. D. and …
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