BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More
BU Technology Development’s 2023 Ignition Awards help researchers transform their ideas into life-changing products and services
His Son Inspired Him to Invent a Bionic Pancreas
And now this BU engineering professor’s breakthrough automated insulin delivery device, the iLet, could transform life for people with type 1 diabetes
Turning Trash into Medicines, Machine Oils, Cosmetics, and More
A multidisciplinary team of BU engineers is helping build a next-generation bioreactor to turn food scraps into greener, cleaner manufactured products
Royal Society of Chemistry Honors BU’s Mark Grinstaff
Chemist, biomedical engineer, and prolific inventor wins prestigious Centenary Prize from United Kingdom–based learned society
New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension
Model helps match people with high blood pressure to the medication most likely to work for them—and could improve trust in healthcare AI
FDA Clears Bionic Pancreas Developed in BU Lab for People with Type 1 Diabetes
The iLet Bionic Pancreas, which automates insulin delivery to manage the chronic disease, was invented in Ed Damiano’s biomedical engineering lab—and inspired by his son
Xin Zhang to Compete for STAT Madness All-Star Award
BU College of Engineering professor will have the opportunity to pitch her work on metamaterials that can improve MRIs to expert judges
A New Drug-Resistant Fungus Is Spreading in Hospitals. Is It The Last of Us in Real Life?
Can We Trust ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to Do Humans’ Work?
Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories
COVID-19 headlines dominate (again), but articles on AI dementia diagnoses, city trees, student mental health, and an action movie star’s brain disorder also prove big hits