How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment
How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment ENG researchers invent blue light therapy that kills MRSA without antibiotics Boston University College of Engineering researchers who invented the technique say they have shown, experimentally, it can kill 99.9 percent of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA. (Methicillin is a common antibiotic.) In people, […]
BU Undergrad Researchers Find Microplastic Pollution in Seagrasses
BU Undergrad Researchers Find Microplastic Pollution in Seagrasses Plastic pollution in the ocean has now invaded all marine food chains in the form of microplastics, found in seagrasses for the first time. In the fall of 2017, Hayley Goss and Jacob Jaskiel were in Belize collecting seagrass blades from underwater meadows in the warm, shallow […]
BU-Led Study: CTE May Occur without Concussions
BU-Led Study: CTE May Occur without Concussions Progressive brain disease could be caused by repetitive head injuries A new BU-led study published Thursday in the journal Brain suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is caused by head injuries, not by concussions. The research explains why 20 percent of athletes who exhibited the early stages of […]