Research Wire

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering will investigate the effect of estrogen on thoracic aortic aneurysm development and develop patient-specific biomarkers to manage the disease.

Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine, received a $100,000 grant to explore the interactions between the viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages, and human intestinal epithelial cells.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have harnessed the internal circadian clock of the body to deliver medication for an inflammatory illness precisely when it was most needed.

Microscopy researchers at Washington University developed a new method to improve precision in molecular imaging.

Refugees resettled in the U.S. often define success in ways that go far beyond economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study co-authored by WashU researchers. The study challenges long-held assumptions about what makes resettlement successful in the U.S.

A clinical trial led by Richard S. Hotchkiss, MD, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has found that treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with an immune-boosting protein reduces life-threatening secondary infections, a major cause of death in such patients.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting a WashU Medicine effort to track neuroinflammation in the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers at Washington University are discovering the electrochemical properties of biomolecular condensates, which could help in development of treatments for cancer or other diseases.

Physicists in Arts & Sciences have created a new phase of matter in the center of a diamond. They created a new form of time crystal called a discrete-time quasicrystal. Such states could be useful for high-precision sensing and advanced signal processing.

WashU rises in the National Academy of Inventors’ annual global ranking of patent awards.