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Dentistry

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Research News

Brink Bites: Tracking Endangered Frogs, Why Concentration Wanders, Studying Kids’ Beliefs

May 6, 2025

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

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Accolades

BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More

September 19, 2023

Photo: Ruslan Afasizhev (left), a tall whie man with a balding, shaved grey hair and wearing a light blue collared shirt and dark grey jeans, and Inna Afasizheva, a white woman with short grey-brown hair and wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and white jeans, pose in a brightly lit lab. Ruslan leans slightly back against a lab worktop while Inna poses with one hand one the same worktop behind Ruslan.

Molecular Biology

They Fell in Love with Each Other, Then with the Same Science

July 18, 2023

Behavior Change

How to Help People Break a Bad Habit (or Start a Good Habit)—Even if They Don’t Want To

January 18, 2023

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Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

October 3, 2022

Photo of Lead researcher Manish Bais. A South Asian man wearing a blue collared shirt, blue tie, and white medical coat, sits in a chair in a research lab. He is turned and smiling towards the camera and sits in front of a large microscope.

Oral Cancer

Could Blocking or Deleting a Protein Help Prevent Common Oral Cancers?

April 21, 2022

A photo of an empty lab in BU’s Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering

Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

BU orthodontist Melih Motro sits on a dentist chair displaying an orthodontic x-ray on his laptop.

Artificial Intelligence

Brace Yourselves, AI Is Coming to the Orthodontist’s Office

July 15, 2019

Brenda Heaton, assistant professor of health policy and health services research at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine

Urban Health

Mapping a Path to Better Oral Health

February 19, 2017

Astha Singhal, assistant professor of health policy and health services research at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine

Medicine

BU Study Finds Racial Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions

October 12, 2016

toddler using inhaler

Asthma

Helping Parents of Kids with Asthma to Quit Smoking

September 8, 2016

SpaceX Dragon private cargo spacecraft in space during its first mission to the International Space Station

Dentistry

Space Science for SDM Biologists

July 21, 2015

Raul Garcia, Boston University, Dental

Dentistry

School of Dental Medicine Professor Honored

February 6, 2015

Eva Helmerhorst, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, celiac disease, human saliva enzymes

Biology

The Secret’s in the Spit

October 23, 2014

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Dentistry

Gap in Routine Dental Care for the Poor

July 14, 2014

Gap in Routine Dental Care for the Poor