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Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

Photo: Isabel Novick, a white woman with wavy brown hair and wearing a cream long sleeved blouse smiles as she peers out from the other side of a clothes rack. She pushes aside a set of clothes and poses from in between them.

Ecology

Elevating the Clothes-Eating Moth from Pest to Evolutionary Marvel

May 3, 2023

Photo: Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in the background as Peter Schroedl, a person wearing black clothes, a face mask, orange neon vest collects specimens from volcanic rocks in the foreground.

Microbes

What Microbes Can Tell Us about Life on Earth and in Space

April 24, 2023

Image: Concept illustration of Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications. Mockup of multiple types of aircrafts are depicted flying over urban, suburban and rural areas.

NASA

Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy

March 14, 2023

From left, Oliver McRae, Lena Dubitsky and James "Jacy" Bird, an ENG associate professor have been studying what bubbles can teach us about how microplastics, viruses, and bacteria aerosolize. Bird just put out a paper on his findings. The team worked in the lab, Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Photo by Jake Belcher. Three people stand in a lab setting with highspeed cameras and other technical equipment setup nearby.

Bubbles

New Bubble Popping Theory Could Help Track Ocean Pollution and Viruses

March 9, 2023

Nipah viruses binding receptors on human cells, an initial stage of Nipah infection. A newly emerging bat-borne virus that causes acute respiratory illness and severe encephalitis, 3D illustration. Large orange balls with spikes surrounding them attach to tree-like structures sticking up off of a large sphere.

Emerging Pathogens

BU Researchers Join $100 Million Effort to Fight Future Deadly Pathogens

February 17, 2023

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Ants

BU’s “Ant Man” Studies Ant Brains

February 16, 2023

NSF CAREER Awards

BU’s 2022 NSF CAREER Award Winners Are Innovating Data Systems and Single-Molecule Circuits

December 13, 2022

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2022 in Review

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

December 12, 2022

Photo: The oldCovid-19 testing lab at Kilachand Center. A researcher wearing a light blue mask and gown works behind a large computer as machines and vials are shown on the counters in front of them.

Research Labs

What Happened to the Robots in BU’s COVID-19 Testing Lab? They’re Getting a New Mission

November 15, 2022

Image: Picture of a memory. Blue dots are positive memory cells, and the red dots are negative memory cells. Dots are shown in a pattern with veins. The memories shown here are located in the hippocampus of a mouse.

Memory Manipulation

Unlocking the Power of Our Emotional Memory

October 3, 2022

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Research in Photos

From Lovesick Frogs to Music-Making to Mouse Memories, Photo Contest Shows Stunning Breadth of BU Research

September 27, 2022

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Kilachand Fund

The Kilachand Fund’s Impact on Science’s Biggest Challenges

September 26, 2022

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Brain Health

New BU Center for Brain Recovery Aims to Advance Treatments for Stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s

September 19, 2022

Photo of Dr. Nancy Sullivan of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discussing Ebola research with President Barack Obama as NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell look on.

NEIDL Director

Nancy J. Sullivan, Ebola Vaccine and Treatment Pioneer, Named New NEIDL Director

September 16, 2022

Image: Computer generated rendering of T cells, a type of white blood cell that defends the body from invaders. A large blue blob with teal tiny blobs on it is shown.

Cancer treatments

Immune Cells Engineered to Battle Cancer Can Be Turned “On” or “Off”

September 8, 2022

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Technology Development

BU Ignition Awards–From the Lab to Your Life

June 6, 2022

Photo of Kevin Outterson, Executive Director, CARB-X and Erin Duffy, CARB-X's chief of research and development standing side by side at CARB-X. Outterson stands to the left with hands in pocket. He wears a navy blazer, jeans, and a light purple collared shirt. Duffy stands with arms crossed to the left wearing a navy blazer and skirt.

Antibiotic Resistance

Can We Prevent Antibiotic Resistance?

May 19, 2022

Photo of a person wearing lavender medical gloves using a small white stick to hold up a small, jelly-like circle that is pink in color from a small glass dish. Presumably this is one of what satellite bio calls "tissue therapeutics."

Technology Development

Biotech Developing “Tissue Therapeutics” to Treat Diseased Organs Launches from BU and MIT Labs

May 6, 2022

Photo of Lead researcher Manish Bais. A South Asian man wearing a blue collared shirt, blue tie, and white medical coat, sits in a chair in a research lab. He is turned and smiling towards the camera and sits in front of a large microscope.

Oral Cancer

Could Blocking or Deleting a Protein Help Prevent Common Oral Cancers?

April 21, 2022

Could Blocking or Deleting a Protein Help Prevent Common Oral Cancers?