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COVID-19 brought masks and with them, a host of questions about how they affect our day-to-day communications, including how well people wearing masks are understood.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have identified a drug compound that makes pancreatic cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy.

“Return,” the 2021 WashU Dance Theatre concert and the Performing Arts Department’s first fully staged dance production in nearly two years, will run in Edison Theatre Dec. 3-5.

Jessie Minton, vice provost and chief information officer at the University of Oregon, has been appointed vice chancellor for technology and chief information officer at Washington University in St. Louis, effective April 15, according to Shantay Bolton, executive vice chancellor and chief administrative officer.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are joining scientists around the country to conduct a study aimed at understanding how prenatal factors and early life experiences influence brain development and behavior in young children.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found that multidrug-resistant bacteria and bacterial spores can be killed by ultrashort-pulse lasers. The findings could lead to new ways to sterilize wounds and blood products without damaging human cells.

Trail cameras have captured 567 pictures of local turkeys as part of the St. Louis Wildlife Project, an effort led by scientists at Tyson Research Center and the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis.

Despite others’ previous claims, the lab of Yevgeniy Vorobeychik and collaborators have determined it’s not so easy for a neural network to recreate a person’s face from DNA.

A team of researchers led by Song Hu at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a two-step denoising technique for photoacoustic microscopy, a method that allows researchers to see tiny vessels in the body.

Research from the lab of Renee J. Thompson in Arts & Sciences shows social media use associated with mixed outcomes when it comes to well-being during the pandemic.