Biology

Health & Medicine

Curing Heart Attacks, Replacing Diseased Organs—Christopher Chen Is Engineering a Healthier Future

Climate Change

Less Snow Makes Trees Absorb Less Carbon, According to New BU Study

Conservation

River Herring in Martha’s Vineyard Are Disappearing. A BU Marine Biologist Is Trying to Help Save Them

Marine Biology

Protecting Maine’s Coastal Heritage—and Her Own

NEIDL

Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub

Carbon Credits

Do Forest Carbon Credits Work and Actually Help the Environment?

Microbes

Microbes Reveal Clues About Extraterrestrial Life

Accolades

BU Biologist Receives 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship

Awards

Three BU Researchers Win National Honor for Early-Career Scientists and Engineers

Awards

Why Do Urban Trees Grow Faster than Rural Ones?

Deep Sea

See the First Detailed Illustration of an Ancient Deep-Sea Mountain

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

NEIDL

West Nile, Zika, Coronavirus: This BU Researcher Is Taking On Some of the World’s Most Serious Viruses—and He Plans to Win

Plant Lab

Studying Plant Genomics Can Bring Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering Breakthroughs

Professorship Awards

Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers

Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

Fall

Boston’s Rain-Free Month May Mean Fall Foliage Will Come Early This Year

Self-Amplifying RNA

A New Type of RNA Could Revolutionize Vaccines and Cancer Treatments

Undergraduate Research

Getting Their Hands Dirty in the Lab—and in the Charles River

Marine Science

Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea Raises Questions about Extraterrestrial Life