Boston University

Health & Medicine

microscopic view of melanoma

Genetics

Shutting Down Skin Cancer

February 25, 2019

A hand pulls back on a rubber band getting ready to "shoot" it from a lab machine as part of an experiment researching physics of shooting rubber bands and plucking guitar strings

Physics

Slingshot Surprise

January 31, 2019

Double Exposure image of a man wearing Oculus Rift virutal reality goggles with nightmarish visions of a dark figure walking towards him out of a fiery forest background inside his head

Psychiatry & Psychology

How Virtual Reality Might Help Fight Recurring Nightmares

January 30, 2019

wind turbine

Climate Change

Eight Ways Boston Could Become Carbon Free

January 29, 2019

microscopic image of ebola virus

Ebola

Spotting Ebola in the Crowd

January 28, 2019

Concept photo of a United States shaped pill box holding a lot of pills resting on an American flag, symbolizing the opioid crisi in America

Marketing

In America’s Opioid Crisis, Drug Marketing Is a Matter of Life or Death

January 23, 2019

Portrait of Jerry Chen, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor of biology, leaning against windows outside a building so that his reflection can be seen to the left.

Accolades

NIH New Innovator Award Will Advance Brain Science

January 15, 2019

Deepak Kumar uses a 3-D motion capture system

Arthritis

Mindful Walking

January 15, 2019

Microscopic image of tuberculosis bacteria

Biology

How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly

January 14, 2019

Black handgun lying on a black background

Public Health

Gun-Related Deaths Have Decreased Overall American Life Expectancy

December 12, 2018

Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (right) and postdoctoral fellow Imane El Meouche in a lab

Antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance without the Antibiotics

December 11, 2018

A female asian child enters an MRI machine.

Infectious Diseases

Mysterious Illness AFM Has Paralyzed More Than 100 Children

December 5, 2018

Wendy Coster (left) and Gael Orsmond (right)

Autism

Life after High School

December 3, 2018

female traveler standing underneath the list of departures and arrivals in an airport

Public Health

SPH Report: Many Study Abroad Students Return with Preventable Diseases

December 3, 2018

sea urchin embryo

Engineering Biology

Unfolding Nature’s Patterns

November 29, 2018

Robert Davey, infectious diseases researcher at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), poses for a portrait in front of hazmat suits like the ones he wears while conducting Biosafety Level 4 research in the NEIDL laboratory.

Ebola

Old Drug, New Tricks

November 19, 2018

Microscopic image of high accumulations of p-tau in the brain tissue of a deceased person with the "major" genetic variation of the TMEM106B protein.

CTE

Why Some People’s CTE Symptoms Are More Severe Than Others

November 3, 2018

Monica L. Wang, assistant professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health smiles for a photo as she receives an Outstanding Young Leaders award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Boston

Accolades

BU researcher named one of 2018’s Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by Boston Chamber of Commerce

October 30, 2018

Antiretroviral drugs can prevent transmission of HIV from mother to unborn child, but we don’t yet fully understand how exposure to HIV affects a baby's health later on.

HIV-AIDS

How Does HIV Exposure Impact Uninfected Babies?

October 24, 2018

Portrait of Jerry Chen, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor of biology, leaning against windows outside a building so that his reflection can be seen to the left.

Accolades

Two NIH Awards Push BU’s Brain Research Forward

October 23, 2018

Two NIH Awards Push BU’s Brain Research Forward