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Expert Take

Is COVID-19 Still a Pandemic?

March 4, 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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Aging Reimagined

The Ingredients of Unequal Aging: Housing, Income, and Health

February 21, 2024

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Aging Reimagined

Rethinking Our Idea of “Old Age”

February 21, 2024

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Awards

BU Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon Daniel Roh Receives Emerging Leader Award for Research in Aging

February 12, 2024

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Skin Cancer

Innocent Mole or Skin Cancer? FDA Clears Device with BU-Developed Technology That Makes Detection Easier

February 8, 2024

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Sex and COVID

Having COVID-19 and Long COVID Can Impact Women’s Sex Lives

January 23, 2024

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Parkinson’s

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

January 5, 2024

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Sickle Cell Disease

BU Researchers Helped Develop the First FDA-Approved Gene Therapies to Treat Sickle Cell Disease

December 12, 2023

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

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

Photo: Moderator Louise Ivers (left), Director of Harvard Global Health Institute and Rt. Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand participate in the MassCPR Symposium Pandemic Preparedness at the GSU on November 14, 2023. The annual symposium included US and global leaders to map a unified strategy for global pandemic prepardness. Two women sit in formal attire on a stage in front of a crowd of people.

Pandemic Preparedness

Preventing the Next Pandemic

November 15, 2023

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Veterans and PTSD

Can Researchers Find Better Treatments for Veterans with PTSD?

November 8, 2023

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Black Women’s Health

Racism, Sexism, and the Crisis of Black Women’s Health

October 31, 2023

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Performance Testing

A Saliva Test for Soldiers, Athletes, and Others Aims to Predict Performance

October 30, 2023

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Kilachand Awards

Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects

October 3, 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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Accolades

BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics

August 23, 2023

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Osteoarthritis

New Noninvasive Light-Based Device Could Help Diagnose Osteoarthritis Early

August 21, 2023

New Noninvasive Light-Based Device Could Help Diagnose Osteoarthritis Early