Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis seniors (from left) Kranti Peddada, Kendall Gretsch and Henry Lather designed and built a robotic prosthetic arm for 13-year-old Sydney Kendall (center left). Sydney requested that her new arm be pink.
WUSTL students ‘print’ pink prosthetic arm for teen girl
An iron-containing protein not unlike the hemoglobin in our red blood cells colors root nodules. Called leghemoglobin (leg- for “legume”) it ferries oxygen to the respiring bacteria, just as hemoglobin ferries oxygen to our respiring cells. But leghemoglobin holds oxygen much more tightly than hemoglobin and dispenses it more stingily because oxygen can poison the bacterial enzyme that fixes nitrogen.
A protein key to the next Green Revolution sits for its portrait
The schematic illustration of the cross-section and phases observed during copper oxidation. The center photo shows the copper being pushed upward through the grain boundaries to become nano wires.
Copper nanowires could become basis for new solar cells
ASU researchers Qiang "Shawn " Chen and Huafang "Lily " Lai infiltrate a tobacco plant to produce monoclonal antibodies against West Nile virus.
Using tobacco to thwart West Nile virus
JAMES BYARD/WUSTL PHOTOS Igor Efimov, PhD, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, works with Sarah Gutbrod, PhD candidate in biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, in Efimov’s lab in Whitaker Hall. Efimov and a team of researchers are developing a custom-fitted, implantable device that can deliver treatment or predict an impending heart attack before a patient shows any physical symptoms.
3-D printer creates transformative device for heart treatment
ROBERT BOSTON High-tech glasses developed at the School of Medicine help breast surgeon Julie Margenthaler, MD, visualize cancer cells in a patient Feb. 10.
Special Glasses Help Surgeons “See Cancer”
Shining a little light changes metal into semiconductor
Aging really is ‘in your head’
How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
How rice twice became a crop and twice became a weed — and what it means for the future
Are human genes patentable?
The dangers of surveillance – it’s bad, but why?
New Device Traps Particulates and Kills Airborne Pathogens
The world’s big trees are dying
New COPD and Asthma drugs limiting excess mucus could save lives