Science & Technology

Researchers at Washington University are looking to find new ways to design vaccines to protect against inflammation in the brain that causes dementia.

Researchers at Washington University are working to develop an anaerobic digestion process using cyanobacterium to grow food in space.

Fructose is a sweetener added to ultra-processed foods, typically in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. WashU research shows that the liver turns fructose into lipids that many types of cancers crave.

Joshua Yuan at Washington University in St. Louis and Susie Dai at the University of Missouri, along with colleagues at WashU and Texas A&M, created biodiesel with electrocatalysis and bioconversion.

A Washington University researcher has received a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to convert carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes that could be used in lithium-ion batteries.

Gang Wu, an electrochemist at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a research award from the Electrochemical Society.

Peng Bai, a researcher at Washington University, has received a National Science Foundation grant to expand his work in sodium-based batteries.

Timothy Wencewicz, an associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at WashU, is the winner of the American Chemical Society’s Saint Louis Award. Wencewicz’s research focuses on drug discovery to address the antibiotic resistance crisis.

Researchers from WashU and Duke University have shown that the formation of biological condensates affects cellular activity far beyond their immediate vicinity.

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering are the first to quantify the effect of dark brown carbon on snow melt.