Boston University

The Brink

Pioneering Research from Boston University

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

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Hearing Sciences

Laurel or Yanny? BU Hearing Sciences Expert Explains Auditory Phenomenon

May 22, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

BU-Based CARB-X Antimicrobial Partnership Gets Another $50 Million Plus

May 22, 2018

A couple sit together

Aging

Marital status associated with dementia risk

May 18, 2018

David Boas, neurophotonics and fNIRS pioneer, and director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center

Engineering

Lighting Up the Brain

May 11, 2018

Close Up of Monitor Showing Atrial Fibrillation

Cardiovascular Disease

Smoking, Alcohol Consumption Increase Lifetime Risk of Atrial Fibrillation

May 7, 2018

toddler coughing

Infectious Diseases

Why Is Whooping Cough on the Rise?

May 7, 2018

Materials Science

New Understanding of Graphene Nanochannels

May 2, 2018

Obesity may be associated with an increased risk of progression, recurrence, and death for specific types of cancer.

Obesity

Obese Patients Underrepresented in Cancer Clinical Trials

May 1, 2018

Obese Patients Underrepresented in Cancer Clinical Trials