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Photo: Overhead shot of a selection of reproductive health supplies including:pills, diaphragm, condoms, vaginal ring, IUD, implant, dmpa, emergency contraception, and contraceptive pills. All the supplies lie on a lie background.

Birth Control

A New Breed of Nonhormonal Birth Control

November 30, 2022

Photo: Exterior of the NEIDL building. A large, beige building with blue windows is shown behind an iron fence on a sunny day.

COVID-19

BU Responds to NIH Funding Clarification Request after False Stories about NEIDL’s COVID Work

November 4, 2022

Collage: Side by side photo of two BU Researchers. (left) Mary Willis, a School of Public Health assistant professor of epidemiology, and recipient of a 2022 NIH Director’s Award. She leans, smiling, against a brick wall with hands in pockets. She wears an olive green shirt and black pants. (right) Hadi T. Nia, College of Engineering assistant professor of biomedical engineering, poses for a photo with arms crossed. He wears an ocean blue blazer and smiles for the camera in front of a blurry landscape of plants.

Accolades

NIH Honors Two BU Researchers “Poised to Blaze New Paths of Discovery”

October 18, 2022

Image: Photo of The iLet bionic pancreas, which automatically monitors blood glucose levels and delivers tailored insulin doses. A hand displays a small black device with gold details and display with gold buttons. Display shows the blood glucose reading and has a symbol of food on it. Text on image reads "CAUTION: The iLet bionic pancreas is an investigational device, limited by federal (or United states) law to investigational use."

Bionic Pancreas

Bionic Pancreas Better for Managing Type 1 Diabetes

September 29, 2022

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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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Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes Have a Bizarre Sense of Smell, Study Finds

August 18, 2022

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Cognitive Health

Living Near Greenery Could Give You a Brain Boost—and Reduce Dementia Risk

May 4, 2022

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Long COVID

Researchers Race to Understand Long COVID in National Study

March 18, 2022

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Neuroscience

Why Do We All Feel Touch Differently?

January 6, 2022

Social Sciences

How Technology Has Transformed Social and Behavioral Research

December 6, 2021

Photo, from behind, of a nurse with blue glasses, wearing a face mask and purple gloves, giving a BU staff or faculty a COVID-19 vaccine, at the vaccine clinic at FitRec January 2020.

Public Health

Do COVID Vaccines Affect Menstruation?

September 9, 2021

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Language Rehabilitation

Scientists Can Predict How Well a Stroke Survivor Will Recover Language Skills Using Computer Simulations of the Brain

June 3, 2021

Anna Honko mixes the nanosponges with live SARS-CoV-2 virus and lung cells at the NEIDL, evaluating how well the nanosponges can deter the novel coronavirus from infecting lung cells

Infectious Diseases

Where Is COVID Research Going Next?

March 26, 2021

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Marine Science

The Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity

March 12, 2021

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Opinion

A Science Editor’s Love Letter to Hope

October 27, 2020

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Vaccine Race

Does Russia Really Have an Effective Coronavirus Vaccine?

August 14, 2020

In this May 8, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Katie Hammond, left, works with another nurse on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center , in Seattle. The number of deaths in Washington because of the coronavirus has reached 1,000, the Washington State Department of Health reported Saturday, May 16, 2020. The agency added eight more deaths and listed the total number of confirmed cases at 18,288.

Translation

Translational Research Hub at BU Gets $38.3 Million Renewal from NIH

May 21, 2020

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CTE and Alzheimer's Disease

We Know Repeated Head Hits Contribute to CTE—but What about Alzheimer’s Disease?

April 29, 2020

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Social Media

Can Social Media Predict When You’ll Die?

September 27, 2019

Can Social Media Predict When You’ll Die?

Beyond the Brink

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