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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

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Bionic Pancreas

Bionic Pancreas Better for Managing Type 1 Diabetes

September 29, 2022

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Genetics

How Genes Influence Food Choices, Obesity

October 14, 2021

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Biosensing

Mining Bacteria Parts to Build Around-the-Clock Biosensors

March 31, 2020

Ed Damiano shows off the iLet bionic pancreas

Biomedical Engineering

BU Biomedical Engineer Ed Damiano Raises $126 Million for Bionic Pancreas

July 3, 2019

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Nutrition

Fast Food Restaurants Have Expanded More Than Their Menus

April 16, 2019

Detail photo of a researcher demonstrating a drug-free blue light therapy MRSA treatment. The researcher exposes a petri dish of MRSA and hydrogen peroxide to a blue light laser light.

Photonics

How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment

April 9, 2019

Medicine

Machine Learning May Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes

September 10, 2018

Synthetic biology researcher Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, assistant professor of biological engineering at Boston University, and researcher at the Boston University Biological Design Center

Engineering Biology

Shedding Light on a Puzzling Protein Process

October 20, 2017

Biomedical Engineering Professor Edward Damiano in his lab with fellow researchers and their bionic pancreas

Funding

Science Coalition: Federal Funding Sparks Innovation

April 26, 2017

Litre Bottles of Soda

Neurology

Is Soda Bad for Your Brain? (And Is Diet Soda Worse?)

April 21, 2017

insulin pen for diabetes treatment

Diabetes

US Deaths from Diabetes Significantly Underestimated

February 10, 2017

Edward Damiano holds a prototype of the iLet bionic pancreas he developed during an acceptance speech for the Boston University Innovator of the Year Award

Diabetes

Bionic Pancreas Passes Critical Science Hurdle

February 7, 2017

Chemistry

New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

January 17, 2017

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Obesity

All Fat Is Not Created Equal

December 15, 2016

Engineering

Tech Survivors

November 22, 2016

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Geriatrics & Gerontology

Healthy Lifestyle Payoff

October 18, 2016

soda

Public Health

Probing Soda Company Sponsorship of Health Groups

October 14, 2016

Photo of Ed Damiano and son

Diabetes

A Father’s Mission

September 12, 2016

Aging

Aging Too Fast, Too Young

April 19, 2016

Aging Too Fast, Too Young