Boston University

Biomedical Engineering

The blood vessel on the chip

Engineering Biology

Why Blood Vessels Leak

December 6, 2017

Synthetic biology researcher Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, assistant professor of biological engineering at Boston University, and researcher at the Boston University Biological Design Center

Engineering Biology

Shedding Light on a Puzzling Protein Process

October 20, 2017

A lab in the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering science building at Boston University, which was built to encourage collaboration and foster interdisciplinary science

Kilachand Center

Designing Science

September 14, 2017

Collaborative research at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering

Culture of Science

Same Goals, Different Languages

September 14, 2017

Illustration about innovative breast tumor imaging research

Cancer

Breast Cancer Research

June 16, 2017

Quantum dots glow different colors under UV light depending on their size. Dennis and her colleagues are developing dots that will respond to deep red and near-infrared light—same idea, not as pretty.

Nanotechnology

What Are Quantum Dots?

June 5, 2017

David Boas, Director of Boston University Neurophotonics Center

Photonics

Neurophotonics Center: Advancing Understanding of the Brain

May 12, 2017

Synthetic biology researcher Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, assistant professor of biological engineering at Boston University, and researcher at the Boston University Biological Design Center

Engineering Biology

Hacking Nature

May 10, 2017

Illustration symbolizing noninvasive biomedical imaging of breast tumors

Health & Medicine

Wearable Windows into Breast Tumors

April 24, 2017

First prototype for an optical chemotherapy monitor, one of the main projects funded by CFTCC.

Biomedical Engineering

It Takes Teamwork

April 7, 2017

Béla Suki, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering, and Jarred Mondoñedo, Boston University School of Medicine MD candidate and College of Engineering PhD candidate

Biomedical Engineering

Emphysema: A New Way to Predict Treatment Outcomes?

March 10, 2017

Chemistry

New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

January 17, 2017

Ahmad “Mo” Khalil, Assistsant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Engineering Biology

Khalil Wins NIH New Innovator Award

December 21, 2016

Professor Mark Grinstaff and Marlena Konieczynska in the Grinstaff Lab at Boston University

Medicine

A Better Way to Treat Burns from BU’s Grinstaff Lab

December 20, 2016

Photo of Ed Damiano and son

Diabetes

A Father’s Mission

September 12, 2016

Denston Carey, Jr., an arts and sciences major at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, works with his grad student mentor, Teresa Guillamon-Vivancos, ,as part of the STaRS program at Boston University

Biology

STaRS: Getting an Early Start on Life in the Lab

August 11, 2016

Close-up photo of the prototype zika virus diagnostic test, reader and paper tests

Zika Virus

New Tool to Diagnose Zika

June 13, 2016

Photonics

Light Beams and DNA Cages Could Deliver Drugs to Just the Right Spot

June 7, 2016

Mark Grinstaff, Boston University School of Medicine, lectures in class

Cancer

Cancer Treatment Goes Local

May 6, 2016

Doug Densmore

Biomedical Engineering

From Cells to Circuits

May 5, 2016

From Cells to Circuits