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Oct 30 10:00 am

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WashU chemists reveal new insights into ALS-linked protein

Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team have isolated Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.

10.14.2025

Anna Goestenkors, a doctoral student in Alexandra Rutz’s lab, fabricates novel granular hydrogels composed of microparticles that could be injected into the body, spread over tissues or used to encapsulate cells and tissue all while being electronically conducting for monitoring and stimulating biological activity. (Credit: Anna Goestenkors)

Extrudable hydrogels act as bioelectronic conductors

Research in Alexandra Rutz’s lab creates hydrogels that could measure biological activity.

10.13.2025

Pictured: left to right, Myles (Max) Miller, Cameron Freeman and Nicolas Chicoine

Biomedical Engineering alumni named finalists in Collegiate Inventors Competition

National student design contest honors inventions that show exemplary innovation and patentability.

09.29.2025

Early earth was a desolate landscape that could not support life. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are uncovering potential mechanisms for how early forms of oxygen and energy made their way to the molecular starter packs of life. (Image: Shutterstock).

Tips for biomolecular engineering can be found in early Earth

Research outlines potential mechanisms for how life emerged ‘before biology’.

09.29.2025

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis plans to investigate the neural mechanisms behind various controls of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) in generating different leg movements with a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. (Credit: iStock)

Novel technologies underway to help those with spinal cord injuries move

Ismael Seáñez, Peter Brunner, Jing Wang, Simon Haroutounian to collaborate on the work.

09.18.2025

Pictured (l – r): Apley, Berkland, Kendall

WashU team to develop novel Type 1 diabetes treatment

Kyle Apley; Cory Berkland; Peggy Kendall, MD, receive accelerator grant.

09.18.2025

With a $2.8 million grant from the NIH, WashU biomedical engineer Christine O’ Brien and colleagues will develop a wearable device to track blood loss to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tracking the deadly and unpredictable postpartum hemorrhage

To prevent dangerous birth complication, WashU researchers will develop wearable device to track blood loss.

09.17.2025

Time-lapse 3D optical coherence microscopy (OCM) and bright-field imaging of a developing mouse embryo during the blastocyst stages. The top row features standard bright-field images, while the second and third rows display the en face slice projection and OCM 3D rendering derived from OCM images, respectively. (Credit: Zhou lab)

An inside look at the earliest stage of life

Chao Zhou’s lab images embryo development from a single cell.

09.12.2025

Fluorescent image shows the electrochemical effect of protein assemblies.

Dai receives $200,000 grant from Alzheimer’s Association

Yifan Dai is investigating the electrochemistry of neurotoxic protein assemblies.

09.02.2025