New Tool to Diagnose Zika
BU researcher on team that created prototype for simple new test Dana Braff (ENG’17), one of the lead authors on a Cell paper that describes a prototype for a new Zika diagnostic (photo above). Zika grabbed the world’s attention in late 2015, when scientists in Brazil began to suspect a connection between the virus and […]
BU BioScience Academy Graduates 15
Year of intensive study and internships launch Class of 2016 in new career field View the slideshow to meet the 2016 graduates of BU’s BIoScience Academy certificate program. (Not pictured: Nandita Bhattacharaya). Photos by Cydney Scott. When Jesse Logan applied for a certificate program in applied biotechnology at BU’s BioScience Academy (BSA), she was at loose […]
CTE Investigators Launch $16 Million Study
A former football player describes brain disease symptoms and angst Tim Fox, the 62-year-old former New England Patriots safety, was describing to a room full of brain scientists at the Boston University School of Medicine (MED) the ferocious style of play that he’d been trained in from an early age, one that had led to […]
Sandro Galea’s Vision for Public Health
SPH dean emphasizes social justice issues like race, poverty Sandro Galea switched careers after a stint with Doctors Without Borders, leaving the immediate gratification of medicine to labor in the vineyard of public health. Photo By Eric Levin. Sandro Galea stood with his backpack at the edge of a small airstrip in Mendi, Papua New […]
Unraveling Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is an epidemic. It attacks the brain’s nerve cells, causing memory loss, behavioral changes, confusion, and deterioration of language skills. It affects more than five million Americans 65 and older, and that is expected to increase to 13.8 million by 2050 unless science finds a treatment. Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are […]
Hope for the Battle against Type 1 Diabetes
Benefit corporation founded by parents of children with the disease Ed Damiano (center) and members of new medical device company Beta Bionics, whose mission is to improve the health of people with type 1 diabetes: (from left) design engineers Raj Setty and Rob LeBourdais; senior engineer Firas El-Khatib; Ed Raskin, VP for public benefit development […]
Will Unlocking Apple’s iPhone Unlock a Pandora’s Box?
CAS network security expert: move will weaken US cybersecurity Network security expert Sharon Goldberg says that what the FBI is asking Apple to do—write new software to unlock the San Bernardino, Calif., shooter’s phone—would introduce vulnerabilities into Apple’s system and weaken cybersecurity. Photo by Cydney Scott. The FBI is trying to force Apple to write […]
Questrom Welcomes Renowned Sustainability Expert
Peter Fox-Penner heads University’s new Institute for Sustainable Energy Peter Fox-Penner, a Questrom School of Business professor of the practice, markets and public policy and law, is also a drummer, a fan of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, and a vegan. Photo courtesy of the Questrom School of Business. It’s not the rat race […]
Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill
Grad students learn to lobby for policy, funding Graduate students in the sciences learn how to advocate for science on Capitol Hill in the Making Our CASE: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering workshops. Photo by Nicolas Raymond via Creative Commons license. The federal government funds about 80 percent of the research conducted at Boston […]
Show Me the Data
First BU Data Science Day draws cross-disciplinary crowd Azer Bestavros, director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (center), and the cochairs of Hariri’s first BU Data Science Day, Prakash Ishwar (left) and Dino Christenson (right), were delighted by the large, cross-disciplinary crowd that came together to talk about how data […]