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Hospital Design

How the Design of Hospitals Impacts Patient Treatment and Recovery

March 14, 2024

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Brain Injury

BU CTE Center: Lewiston, Maine, Mass Shooter Had Traumatic Brain Injury

March 7, 2024

Photo: This image shows microglia and astrocytes, components of our brain's immune system, in the heat of battle against those beta-amyloid protein plaques, the drivers of the concatenation of events presented above. Being able to study them at this level of detail will allow us to better understand the pathology and, hopefully in the near future, to develop effective therapies against the origin of the disease. Image taken with reflection confocal and/or scanning spectral fluorescence microscope LEICA Stellaris 8. Objective: HCX PL APO 63x/1.30 Glyc W.D. 0.30 mm. Composite made from 43 Z-planes with LASX 3D software and post-processed with FIJI.

Aging Reimagined

Can We Find a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease?

February 21, 2024

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Aging Reimagined

The Secrets of Living to 100

February 21, 2024

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Aging Reimagined

How to Save for Retirement—and Why Most of Us Haven’t (or Can’t) Save Enough

February 21, 2024

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CTE

Researchers Are One Step Closer to Diagnosing CTE During Life, Rather Than After Death

February 5, 2024

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Listen Now

How Do Memories Work?

February 1, 2024

Photo: A man with white hair performance an exercise using a ladder on the ground, under the watchful eye of a PT next to him. The two appear to be in a clinic.

Parkinson’s

Can We Fight Back against Parkinson’s Disease? These Research Volunteers Hope So

January 5, 2024

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Philadelphia Eagles' C.J. Gardner-Johnson catches a pass during practice at the NFL football team's training facility, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. A Black man wearing a dark green and white Eagles' football uniform and helmet catches a football in his hands, Photo: A flatlay of the iLet Bionic Pancreas, a bionic pancreas approved at the FDA. The device is a black box with a wire attached with two additional attachments, Photo: An unidentified person standing in a generic store pharmacy holds over the counter medicine in the aisle as they try to make a decision, and Photo: A white hands holds up a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory. a Petri dish with speckles of white dots/fungi is shown.

2023 IN REVIEW

What Were BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories in 2023?

December 11, 2023

Collage: Side by side photos of James W. Whitworth (left) and Mark W. Logue (right). Whitworth, a bald white man wearing a burgundy, white, and black plaid collared shirt and grey pants poses in an activity lab, featuring a medical treadmill and various other exercise equipment. Logue, a white man with grey-black hair and beard, poses in a dark lecture hall with a lit whiteboard behind him filled with notes. He wears a white collared shirt and black blazer.

Veterans and PTSD

Can Researchers Find Better Treatments for Veterans with PTSD?

November 8, 2023

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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

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CTE and Sports

Young Amateur Athletes at Risk of CTE, BU Study Finds

August 28, 2023

Photo: A person wearing a burgundy and yellow tackle football uniform and helmet is shown tackling a player in a white and red uniform and helmet tot he ground. The burgundy athlete has their head impacted to the ground as the white player falls on top of them.

Parkinson’s

Playing Football May Increase the Risk for Developing Parkinson’s Disease

August 11, 2023

Photo: Group of American football players mid-game. Team member wearing black football uniforms and helmets are shown as they tackle a player holding the football and waring a white football uniform and helmet.

CTE

The Force of Head Hits Raises Likelihood of CTE

June 21, 2023

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Suicide

BU Researchers Identify Brain Marker Indicating Future Suicide Risk

May 15, 2023

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Long COVID

What We Know about Long COVID—and What We Don’t

April 24, 2023

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Football

New BU Study Finds Tackle Football at Young Age Raises Risk for Brain Decline Later

March 6, 2023

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Bruce Willis attends the "Motherless Brooklyn" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, in New York. People in Mississippi’s capital city are being told to expect downtown street closures and explosions for the filming of an action movie that stars Willis. A bank heist movie called “A Day to Die” has been filming in Jackson in April 2021, with Willis shooting scenes in several places, including a street outside the Governor’s Mansion. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Dementia

What Now for Bruce Willis after Actor’s Recent Dementia Diagnosis?

February 17, 2023

Photo: Philadelphia Eagles' C.J. Gardner-Johnson catches a pass during practice at the NFL football team's training facility, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. A Black man wearing a dark green and white Eagles' football uniform and helmet catches a football in his hands.

CTE

BU Finds CTE in Nearly 92 Percent of Ex-NFL Players Studied

February 7, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories