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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

In this model, cell clusters can “feel” farther beyond their surrounding environment in the human body by acting as a collective, shown here “reaching out” with the red indicating the spatial distribution of the collagen deformation over a layer of stiff tissue. WashU researchers share details on this emergent property in the journal PNAS. (Image: Pathak lab)

Working together, cells extend their senses

New research has implications for tracking cancer.

09.11.2025

Aerial view of fermentation tanks used in industrial sewage treatment. WashU researchers will investigate adding light to tanks such as these to further increase production of volatile fatty acids from sludge. (Photo: Shutterstock)

A silver lining in sewer sludge: volatile fatty acids

WashU researchers find ways to more efficiently reclaim useful feedstock from waste.

09.11.2025

A team of WashU researchers in McKelvey Engineering and WashU Medicine is developing an at-home wearable device that would monitor electrical and mechanical signals in the uterus during pregnancy and labor and provide information about preterm birth. (Credit: Chuan Wang)

Wearable imaging system could provide insight into preterm birth

Chuan Wang, Shantanu Chakrabartty, Yong Wang developing AI-integrated device.

09.08.2025

Zhang named Francis Ahmann Professor

Fuzhong Zhang uses synthetic biology to produce advanced biofuels, chemicals, new materials from sustainable resources.

09.03.2025

Yang receives 2025 IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award

Lan Yang recognized for transformative contributions to nanophotonic sensing.

09.02.2025

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

An international team of researchers led by Jian Wang, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, found that strong wave breaking along the shore, particularly during high wave periods, can produce large amounts of sea spray aerosols, significantly increasing both the number of cloud condensation nuclei and the mass of airborne particles in coastal regions. (Credit: Wang lab)

When waves meet the shore

Jian Wang, Shengqian Zhou look closely at sea spray aerosols from shoreline wave breaking and associated environmental implications.

08.27.2025

A multi-institutional team will develop AI-driven design of architecturally diverse and deconstructable (ADD) polymers with a three-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Their goal is to design new sustainable polymers with a diverse range of properties that can be recycled without the need for costly and inefficient separation from mixed waste streams. (Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

AI to spark new recyclable plastics design

Chris Cooper, collaborators to use AI to design new plastics that can be more easily recycled for a circular economy.

08.26.2025

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Sep 12 8:30 am

Imaging Science & Engineering Seminar | Daniel Thorek at Preston M. Green Hall

Sep 12 10:00 am

ESE Seminar Series | Tansu Daylan at Preston M. Green Hall, Rodin Auditorium room 0120

Sep 12 11:00 am

EECE Seminar ~ Jerrod A. Henderson at Uncas A. Whitaker 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

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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)

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Working together, cells extend their senses

A silver lining in sewer sludge: volatile fatty acids

Wearable imaging system could provide insight into preterm birth

Zhang named Francis Ahmann Professor

Yang receives 2025 IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award

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

When waves meet the shore

AI to spark new recyclable plastics design

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Imaging Science & Engineering Seminar | Daniel Thorek at Preston M. Green Hall

ESE Seminar Series | Tansu Daylan at Preston M. Green Hall, Rodin Auditorium room 0120

EECE Seminar ~ Jerrod A. Henderson at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

John Gleaves, former chemical engineering faculty, 79

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