Research Wire

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.

The Jansky/Bander Family Fund, a generous commitment of $1.1 million over five years, has been established to advance critical initiatives within the Section of Movement Disorders in the Department of Neurology at WashU Medicine.

Esther Viola Kurtz, in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, has published an article titled “Call, Response, and Compromisso: Ethical Practice in Capoeira of Backland Bahia, Brazil.”