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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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Regenerative Medicine

BU Researchers See Future Where Lung Disease Is Treatable, and Damaged Lungs Are Regenerated

August 31, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

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

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Heart Health

The Quest for a Heart Attack Cure

May 31, 2022

Photo of Florian Douam (left) assistant professor, microbiology, and Devin Kenney, a PhD student, posing for a photo at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. The both wear white lab coats and stand facing each other with their bodies and heads tilted towards the camera in front of a purple-blue wall. Lab shelves can be seen on either side of them.

COVID-19

Why Do Some People Get Sicker Than Others from COVID?

April 29, 2022

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Heart Health

New Miniature Heart Could Help Speed Heart Disease Cures

April 22, 2022

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COVID-19 Research

How Coronavirus Damages Lung Cells within Mere Hours

January 11, 2021

CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH

In Deadly COVID-19 Lung Inflammation, BU Researchers Discover a Culprit in NFkB Pathway

September 24, 2020

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CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH

What Sets Off Deadly Levels of Lung Inflammation in Some COVID-19 Patients?

September 8, 2020

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Stem Cells

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

February 4, 2020

Michael Albro, an assistant professor at the College of Engineering, is working to develop innovative growth factor delivery strategies to overcome several of the major challenges in cartilage tissue engineering. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Arthritis

Crossing the Scientific Aisle to Advance Tissue Engineering

January 17, 2019

Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) founders Gustavo Mostoslavsky, Darrell Kotton, and George Murphy

Stem Cells

CReM Honored for Sharing Stem Cell Lines

September 8, 2017

iPS cells innovator Gustavo Mostoslavsky, Boston University Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)

Stem Cells

CReM Stem Cell Researcher Is Innovator of the Year

July 11, 2017

Microscopic image of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) turning into lung cells

Stem Cells

CReM Scientists Turn Human IPS Cells into Lung Cells

May 2, 2017

Darrell Kotton, Director of Boston University Center for Regenerative Medicine CReM

Stem Cells

Three NIH Awards for CReM

November 28, 2016

Regenerative Medicine

Stem Cells to Thyroid Cells

November 6, 2015

Stem Cells to Thyroid Cells