Boston University

Research

illustration of human body with various different types and colors of cells

Stem Cells

Machine Learning Gives Rise to Better Lung Disease Models from Stem Cells

February 4, 2020

Kat j. McAlpine interviews Ann McKee in her research lab about CTE

CTE & Football

What Does Football Do to the Brain?

January 30, 2020

Arthur Lupia, assistant director of the National Science Foundation

SCIENCE & SOCIETY

National Science Foundation’s Arthur Lupia Talks Scientific Credibility in an Era of Misinformation

January 28, 2020

Fallou Ngom sits in the home of an Ajami manuscript owner in Belfort, Ziguinchor, Senegal.

Anthropology

Digitizing Ajami, a Centuries-Old African Script

January 23, 2020

A portrait of Ayanna Pressley where she reveals her bald head as a result of Alopecia Areata

Hair Loss

Ayanna Pressley Opens Up about Hair Loss from Alopecia Areata

January 21, 2020

Trump Administration Science Advisor Kelvin K. Droegemeier talks to Boston research officials at the Harvard Law School.

Academic Research

Trump Science Advisor Meets with Top Boston Academic Research Officials

January 16, 2020

a health worker administers medication to a person in the Congo

Ebola

“It Was Like a Miracle,” BU NEIDL Researcher Says of Powerful New Ebola Treatments

August 15, 2019

sperm and egg

BIRTH CONTROL

Why We Need a Contraception Revolution

August 1, 2019

illustration symbolizing the effect of dioxins and other toxic chemical chemical carcinogens in the environment that cause breast cancer

Research

Dioxins Point to Targets for Treating Breast Cancer

April 24, 2017

Black Woman Health Disparities illustration

Public Health

Too Many Black Women Die from Breast Cancer. Why?

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing breast cancer research using zebrafish

Cancer

Zebrafish Cancer Genetics Illuminate Human Breast Cancers

April 24, 2017

Illustration of hands holding the body of a woman symbolizing the help of patient navigators for underserved women with breast cancer

Health & Medicine

Patient Navigators Improve Delivery of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing noninvasive biomedical imaging of breast tumors

Biomedical Engineering

Wearable Windows into Breast Tumors

April 24, 2017

Lisa Fredman, Boston University School of Public Health professor of epidemiology

Health & Medicine

Caring for the Caregivers

April 29, 2016

Lindsay Farrer, Boston University School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Genetics

Neurology & Neuroscience

The Gene Hunter

April 28, 2016

Karin Schon, Boston University School of Medicine

Research

Work It Out

April 27, 2016

Robert Stern, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Neurology & Neuroscience

The Search for a Treatment

April 26, 2016

Wendy Qiu, Boston University School of Medicine Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry in Aging

Health & Medicine

Diagnosis: Alzheimer’s

April 25, 2016

Career

Too Many Postdocs, Too Little Funding

April 27, 2015

Darrel Kotton, Andrew Wilson, and Finn Hawkins in the Center for Regenerative Medicine's Kotton-Wilson-Ikonomou lab

Biology

Cracking the NIH Code

April 21, 2015