Research Wire

With a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, WashU’s Umar Iqbal proposes to redesign the web with infrastructures that will allow AI agents to reliably use it.

Biologist Keith Hengen, in WashU Arts & Sciences, is applying lessons from the brain to next-generation quantum sensors through a U.S. Department of Energy-funded project.

Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD, has received a $1.9 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to help lead an international collaboration aimed at identifying new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease and improving prevention.

McKelvey Engineering researchers, led by James Friend, have developed a device that uses sound waves to pump fluid through porous materials. Such a device could have uses from fuel cells to delivering drugs efficiently.

Research from Amit Pathak’s lab at WashU McKelvey Engineering shows how cells can sense even the smallest defects, or micro-injuries — work that could help develop treatments for wound healing and cancer.

WashU Medicine researchers have found that cells originating in bone and normally involved in bone formation are recruited to primary breast tumors, where they become part of the tumor microenvironment and may play a role in supporting tumor growth.

WashU Medicine researchers discovered that while rates of mammography screening remained steady in the overall population over two decades, they fell significantly among younger white women, uninsured women and current smokers.

WashU biomedical researchers Yifan Dai, Rohit Pappu and collaborators have discovered “condenzymes” that contribute biochemical functions in cells.

WashU’s Sang-Hoon Bae plans to use glass to grow 2D crystals with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Research in Feng Jiao’s lab at WashU McKelvey Engineering has shown that modifying the power strategy with a catalyst can prevent damage without any loss in performance while also reducing costs in converting carbon dioxide to other useful chemicals.