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Best of The Brink 2023: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 12, 2023

From the study of earthquakes to the science of love to a bionic pancreas, how BU researchers shaped—and helped us make sense of—the news

Best Practices for Communication with Patients or Research Subjects

March 19, 2020

Dear Colleagues,All communication with patients and research subjects poses some risk to the privacy of those individuals. In simple cases a conversation or message may be overheard, but in other cases our choice of communication method may increase the risk that a message will be intercepted: For example, voice and text messages sent to your […]

Close-up of bandage application on patient arm post-vaccination

Big Majority of Young Adults Are Pro-COVID Vaccine, Driven to Protect Themselves and Community, BU Study Finds

March 6, 2026

Boston University researchers also find those with anti-vaccine attitudes are less altruistic, more likely to distrust science and government

Biological Waste Pick-ups Now in BioRAFT

February 20, 2020

Dear CRC Researchers,Effective immediately, all biological waste pick-up requests will be processed directly in BU's research compliance system, BioRAFT. Going forward you will use the same method to request biological waste pick-ups that you are currently using for hazardous waste pick-up requests.Six new waste profile streams have been created in BioRAFT for the various biological waste […]