Science & Technology

Several biology and medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have earned prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Biomedical engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are tackling the question of how oxygenation happened on primordial earth in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researcher Deanna Barch, a professor at WashU, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science.

What is artificial intelligence good at? What is it not good at? How might it reshape the employment landscape? Last spring, WashU’s Ian Bogost interviewed Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, chief technology officer at Meta, and others for Bogost’s class “How AI Will Change Your Career.”

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a developed a way to monitor mouse embryo development and predict successful blastocyst formation. The results of the study could help improve success rates of in vitro fertilization.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis will provide cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory with a nearly $4 million federal grant.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using surface chemistry to improve the strength of soy and cellulose-based biomaterials.

Funding from the National Science Foundation will enable researchers across many disciplines at Washington University in St. Louis to advance ongoing research into the damaging health effects of repeated flooding in Metro East communities.

Neuroscientists, clinicians and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis seek to develop personalized medicine strategies for refractory depression that would tailor drug dosage based on a patient’s age, genetics, health conditions, brain dynamics and neural circuits.