Author: Brandie Jefferson

Washington University’s Jonathan Silva and Jeanne Nerbonne led a team that found that two drugs sometimes prescribed to treat arrhythmias affect heart atria and ventricles differently depending on the molecular composition of the sodium channels expressed.

Scialog: Advancing BioImaging has awarded Ulugbek Kamilov $50,000 for research into the merging of two imaging technologies.

Research from the lab of Deanna Barch shows a lasting relationship between childhood poverty, brain development.

Research from the lab of Shantanu Chakrabartty reveals constraints can lead to learning in AI systems.

Washington University’s Meredith Jackrel and Jai Rudra and are researching nanofiber materials that will eliminate the need for vaccine adjuvants.

Research from the lab of Kimberly Parker at the McKelvey School of Engineering reveals key differences between single- and double-stranded RNA, insights that may prove useful to fields from agriculture to medicine.

Tae Seok Moon, associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a three-year $501,246 grant from the Office of Naval Research to study heat from the human microbiota.

Undergraduate students interested in data science can now earn a bachelor’s degree through the McKelvey School of Engineering or Arts & Sciences.

Srikanth Singamaneni and Barani Raman in the McKelvey School of Engineering developed technology to use nanoparticles to heat, manipulate cells in the brain and heart.

A new fiber, made by genetically engineered bacteria in the lab of Fuzhong Zhang, is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar.