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Fluorescent image showing increased expression of a hypoxia marker (Image-iT red hypoxia) in breast cancer spheroids (BT549, triple-negative breast cancer cells) after exposure to hypoxia, followed by normoxia, within 3D collagen matrices. Scale bar, 500 μm. (Credit: José Almeida, Pathak lab)

Feature or flaw? Breast cancer cells remember low-oxygen environments

Amit Pathak’s lab investigates how breast cancer cells use memory of hypoxic tumors to move through dense tissue.

07.02.2025

How can infinitely sensitive optical resonators be placed arbitrarily close together without interacting? Mark Lawrence’s team has the answer. (Credit: Lawrence lab)

Overlap, not distance, keeps chatty nanoantennas from crosstalk

Mark Lawrence’s lab discovers better way to manipulate light.

07.02.2025

Aayush Dhakal in Nathan Jacobs’ lab developed a new retrieval-augmented system called RANGE that adds explicit visual features that allow researchers to supplement the location encoding with rich image features. In this image, the location encoder feeds into the image feature bank and uses the RANGE retriever function to retrieve relevant image features on the left. The top right graphic features results using the industry standard SatCLIP model, while the bottom right graphic is results using the RANGE model. (Credit: Aayush Dhakal)

Novel strategy could boost visual information in geospatial images

Nathan Jacobs’ lab makes strides toward solving tasks.

07.01.2025

McKelvey Engineering faculty members awarded Spring 2025 Here and Next Seed Grants

Faculty members from wide range of engineering disciplines among winners.

06.30.2025

Students from WashU and University of Indonesia Jakarta tour a local wastewater treatment facility.

McKelvey Engineering students travel to Indonesia for International Experience program

Lessons in engineering, culture and history highlight two-week trip.

06.27.2025

Friend named chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis

Acclaimed researcher James Friend to join McKelvey School of Engineering in 2026.

06.26.2025

An interdisciplinary research team at Washington University in St. Louis has found that variability in sleep patterns in people experiencing pregnancy can effectively predict preterm birth. (Credit: Unsplash)

Sleep data from wearable device may help predict preterm birth

WashU interdisciplinary research uses machine learning to offer accurate prediction of preterm birth.

06.23.2025

‘Every second counts’

Alumnus Matt Bitner-Glindzicz engineers a life-saving solution.

06.19.2025

Researchers at WashU are using machine learning to better predict who will experience persistent pain after surgery. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Predicting pain with machine learning

AI scientists and doctors partner to understand who is at risk for persistent post-surgical pain.

06.19.2025

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Independence Day Holiday (no classes)

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EECE Seminar - Shannon Bartelt-Hunt at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

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ESE Seminar Series | Magnus Egerstedt at Preston M. Green Hall

John Gleaves, former chemical engineering faculty, 79

Gleaves was co-inventor of the TAP reactor system.

06.18.2025

BME professor participates in data rescue

05.14.2025

Matthew Bersi (right) works with a student in the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Lab. (Photo: Whitney Curtis)

Bersi named 2025 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Matthew Bersi has been recognized by the Biomedical Engineering Society as an innovative and impactful junior faculty member in bioengineering.

04.03.2025

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Hong Chen, her collaborators and her lab members have been using focused ultrasound to deliver drugs to the brain, to treat brain diseases and to aid in noninvasive brain liquid biopsy for the molecular diagnosis of brain diseases. Photo by Douglas Garfield

Wonderland

Focused ultrasound making strides in diagnosis, unlocking potential treatment of brain disorders.

06.05.2025

Kahan Chavda, who earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering in 2016, is a co-founder and chief commercial officer of Inversa, which is working to manage invasive species in a unique way. Photo by Lisa Beth Anderson

How fashion could heal the planet

06.05.2025

Clockwise from left: Avery Cohen, Geoffrey Goffman, Sophie Fendler and Jack Galloway assemble the ground station frame. Photos by Jerry Naunheim

On a mission

WashU Satellite has big plans for its spaceflight technologies.

06.05.2025

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Katie Auyeung, a Washington University junior engineering major from Chicago, right, and Zachary Fine, a sophomore biomedical engineering major from Silver Spring, Md., left, help Craig Oberle, of Florissant, put on a device they invented that would help limit his hand tremors at the end of the school’s annual Make-a-Thon program on Thursday in St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood. (Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio)

Students invent new adaptive tech during 10-day Make-a-Thon blitz

This year's Make-a-Thon yielded eight projects.

02.26.2025

In the media: Mysterious blobs found inside cells are rewriting the story of how life works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell.

01.22.2025

In the Media: New Technique for Diagnosing Brain Diseases is Successfully Put to the Test

HEC Science & Technology explores Hong Chen's new method of detecting Alzheimer's disease.

07.31.2023

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Feature or flaw? Breast cancer cells remember low-oxygen environments

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Novel strategy could boost visual information in geospatial images

McKelvey Engineering faculty members awarded Spring 2025 Here and Next Seed Grants

McKelvey Engineering students travel to Indonesia for International Experience program

Friend named chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis

Sleep data from wearable device may help predict preterm birth

‘Every second counts’

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EECE Seminar - Shannon Bartelt-Hunt at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

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BME professor participates in data rescue

Bersi named 2025 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

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