Boston University

The Brink

Pioneering Research from Boston University

An engorged tick

Infectious Diseases

Tick Season Tips

July 23, 2018

A group of adults cheers while drinking beer

Addiction

Almost Half of US Adults Who Drink, Drink Too Much, and Continue to Do So

July 19, 2018

newborn baby hold mother finger on your hand

Social Work

Major Grant to Help School of Social Work Study How Opioid Crisis Is Impacting Infants and Their Mothers

July 19, 2018

Close-up Egyptian fruit bat or rousette, Rousettus aegyptiacus. on isolated black background

Infectious Diseases

Marburg Virus Can’t Kill Bats. Why?

July 13, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions

July 5, 2018

John Ngo, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University

Biology

Turning Cells On and Off

July 2, 2018

Illustration showing different colored people vaping and exhaling different colored smoke

Cardiovascular Disease

Flavored E-Cigs Linked to Possible Cardiovascular Disease

June 20, 2018

Cancer

Ejaculation Changes Prostate Tissue, Lowering Cancer Risk

June 19, 2018

aerial view of a rural town

Healthcare

Medicaid Expansion Increases Volume and Quality of Care in Rural Areas

June 19, 2018

Entire eVOLVER platform for growing microbes in the lab

Biomedical Engineering

A Better Way to Grow Microbes

June 19, 2018

Vivien Schmidt

Accolades

Pardee’s Vivien Schmidt Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

June 15, 2018

Religion

Christianity Can Be Good for the Environment

June 14, 2018

counterfeit pills

Global Health

Fellowship Available for Study of Poor-Quality Drugs, Disease Resistance

June 14, 2018

Avi Spira

Cancer

BU and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Team Up to Fight Lung Cancer

June 6, 2018

Genetics

Are you sure you want to test your genes?

June 5, 2018

A Sifaka lemur in a tree

Anthropology

Why Lemurs Smell Better than You

June 1, 2018

PhD candidate Evan Kristiansen (GRS’20). Kristiansen and his advisor, associate professor of biology Sean Mullen, study butterflies to understand the genetics of speciation. Photo by Cydney Scott

Biology

Seeking Clues to Natural Selection in Butterfly Wings

May 31, 2018

Clinicians work at an Ebola Virus vaccination clinic in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, during an outbreak in May of 2018

Ebola

BU Experts on New Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo

May 31, 2018

A detailed watercolor of a bird next to the laser-etched wood panel used to print the watercolor.

Computer Science

Taking the Pain out of Painting

May 24, 2018

Business & Social Sciences

The Curse of Meetings

May 22, 2018

The Curse of Meetings