by | Feb 18, 2022 | Elbert, Donald, Roam, Jacob
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Engineers led by Dr. Donald L. Elbert have developed a patented, self-assembling hydrogel microsphere scaffold system designed to improve tissue regeneration by creating cell migration pathways to repair large nerve gaps. This technology generates the migration pathways by c…
by | Feb 4, 2022 | Cloninger, C. Robert, Svrakic, Dragan, Zwir, Jorge "Igor"
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Researchers in Igor Zwir’s lab at Washington University have developed a diagnostic system to categorize patients with schizophrenia into 8 sub-groups. The system recommends a sub-group based on both genetic and psychopathology data and provides clinicians with a knowl…
by | Jan 25, 2022 | Bowman, Gregory
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Researchers in Greg Bowman’s lab at Washington University have developed an improved method for rational drug and protein design called Boltzmann docking. This process better incorporates the dynamic structures of proteins to identify sites for binding that are not rev…
by | Jan 21, 2022 | Wang, Qing, Wang, Yong
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed MRI post-processing software capable of imaging cellular components. The software matches specific patterns with a dictionary of signals corresponding to cellular components. While the researchers have previous…
by | Nov 23, 2021 | Abou, Diane, Thorek, Daniel, Zhang, Hanwen
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A team of researchers led by Professor Daniel Thorek at Washington University have developed a peptide specific to human ACE2, the receptor for SARS-CoV-2, that can be used for imaging or therapeutic delivery. The peptide can be easily chelated for PET imaging, allowing for …