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Osteoarthritis

New Noninvasive Light-Based Device Could Help Diagnose Osteoarthritis Early

August 21, 2023

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Accolades

BU Astronomer Wins Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

August 17, 2023

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Climate Change

What Can the Bible Teach Us about Fighting Climate Change?

August 15, 2023

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Parkinson’s

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

August 11, 2023

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Global Debt Crisis

What Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis and Can We Solve It?

August 7, 2023

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Opioid Crisis

A Notorious Boston Intersection, Mass and Cass, Faces an Opioid Overdose Crisis. BU Researchers Are Turning to Overdose Survivors for Answers

August 3, 2023

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Swimming

Sharks, Bacteria, No Lifeguards: Is This the End of Swimming in New England?

August 1, 2023

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COVID-19

After a Year in the White House, BU Infectious Diseases Expert Shares Lessons about Pandemic Response

August 1, 2023

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Computer Engineering

Inside the Mind of an Internet-Safety Vanguard

July 26, 2023

Photo: Beta Bionic’s Ed Damiano (left) with his son, David Damiano. A white man silver grey hair and wearing a black shirt and grey pants sits and poses next to a younger man with dark brown hair who is wearing a blue shirt and black pants. Both smile and pose in fornt of a blue wall. Silver letters on wall read "Beta Bionic".

Diabetes

How the iLet Bionic Pancreas Could Revolutionize Type 1 Diabetes Management

July 24, 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

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Infectious Diseases

Should We Be Worried about a Malaria Outbreak in the US?

July 17, 2023

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COVID-19

Rural Mortality Rose during Year Two of Pandemic, despite Vaccines, New Study Finds

July 11, 2023

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LGBTQ+ Health

BU’s Carl Streed Is Recognized by the American Medical Association for Outstanding LGBTQ+ Healthcare

July 10, 2023

Social Media

Is Meta’s Threads Safe? Social Media Data Privacy Explained

July 6, 2023

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Expert Take

Colleges Are Already Unequal—Will Ending Affirmative Action Make It Worse?

June 29, 2023

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COVID-19 and Menstruation

Does the COVID Vaccine Affect Menstruation? A New BU Study Has Answers

June 29, 2023

Collage: Headshots of NSF CAREER Award winners. From top to bottom, left to right: Jessica Simes, Michael Economo, Renato Mancuso, Hadi Nia, and Alyssa Pierson.

CAREER Awards

BU’s 5 NSF Grant Winners Are Changing Conversations in Robotics, Computing, Mass Incarceration, Neurology, and More

June 23, 2023

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CTE

The Force of Head Hits Raises Likelihood of CTE

June 21, 2023

Photo: A group of people pose in font of a building with glass doors. Pictured (from left): Saylor Williams, Manpreet Singh (GRS’24), Gloria Waters, Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, Golden (CAMED’27); Angie Serrano, a BU medical school assistant professor of vascular biology; Dennis Carlberg, and Greg Miller.

Sustainability

How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable

June 20, 2023

How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable