Boston University

Health & Medicine

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Trump vs. WHO

Why Withdrawing the United States from the WHO “Is a Terrible Decision”

July 17, 2020

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Social Justice

Five New Studies to Probe Pandemic’s Impact on Vulnerable Urban Populations

July 17, 2020

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Gun Culture

New Gun Subculture Is on the Rise in Liberal States with Stricter Gun Laws

July 15, 2020

Mental Health

In College Students, COVID-19 Has Increased Depression Rate and Raised New Barriers to Mental Health Care

July 9, 2020

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Adolescence & Autism

How Autistic Youth Navigate Alcohol Use and Peer Relationships

July 7, 2020

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Environmental Health

Do Air Pollution and Ambient Noise Raise Dementia Risk?

June 30, 2020

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Children & Coronavirus

Don’t Undersell the Facts: Why Kids Deserve Accurate Coronavirus Information

June 26, 2020

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Neuroscience

How a Memory Game Could Help Us Understand Brain Injury

June 23, 2020

CAREER PLANNING

Postdoc Academy Launches Remote Professional Development Course

June 19, 2020

nanosponges containing fragments of lung cell membranes in a cell culture in a NEIDL laboratory

Coronavirus

Tiny, Decoy “Sponges” Attract Coronavirus Away from Lung Cells

June 18, 2020

A photo of a sign that reads "Warning Tick Infested Area" near a beach

Climate Change and Health

Ticks and Mosquitoes, Infectious Disease Carriers, Are Expanding Their Range

June 16, 2020

Biomedical engineers in BU professor Allyson Sgro’s lab participated in a workshop to develop individualized action plans and then joined up in person with other members of the community. Together, they met up with a #ShutDownSTEM/Black Lives Matter march walking from Roxbury’s Nubian Square to Boston City Hall.

STEM ON STRIKE

BU Researchers #ShutDownSTEM to Combat Racism

June 12, 2020

An image showing how brain networks propagate and evolve leading up to and during seizures.

Network Statistics

Data Science Is Helping to Explain Epileptic Seizures

June 11, 2020

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Public Opinion & COVID

In National Survey, Americans Say Chinese People Are Blameless for Coronavirus Spread, but Their Government May Owe Us

June 5, 2020

Structural Racism

Police Brutality Influenced by Residential Segregation, Not “a Few Bad Apples”

June 2, 2020

Using photolysis—a process by which molecules are broken down by light—BU engineers found they could temporarily weaken MRSA’s defenses enough to make it vulnerable again to several conventional antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance

Why Phototherapy Will Be the Next Frontier in Combating Antibiotic Resistance

May 21, 2020

In this May 8, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Katie Hammond, left, works with another nurse on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center , in Seattle. The number of deaths in Washington because of the coronavirus has reached 1,000, the Washington State Department of Health reported Saturday, May 16, 2020. The agency added eight more deaths and listed the total number of confirmed cases at 18,288.

Translation

Translational Research Hub at BU Gets $38.3 Million Renewal from NIH

May 21, 2020

A photo of researchers working with COVID-19 in the NEIDL labs

Decoding COVID-19

BU NEIDL Scientists Featured in NOVA’s Special Coronavirus Episode

May 14, 2020

Coronavirus Research

BU Scientists Awarded $1.9 Million to Accelerate Coronavirus Research

May 13, 2020

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Coronavirus on the Border

As Coronavirus Exploded in Boston, BU Class Trip to US-Mexico Border Grappled with Evolving Ethics

May 7, 2020

As Coronavirus Exploded in Boston, BU Class Trip to US-Mexico Border Grappled with Evolving Ethics