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Cancer

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Things-to-do

To Do Today: Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl to Support Cancer Care and Research

June 2, 2025

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Health & Medicine

What Does Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis Mean?

May 21, 2025

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Voices & Opinion

POV: My Son Has a Rare Form of Cancer. I Understand If Taxpayers Aren’t Providing Funds to Research It Yet

January 29, 2025

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Photonics

What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure?

January 8, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Ph.D Candidate, Ariane Garrett demonstrates how to use a cuff-less blood pressure monitor

Optical Technology

Using Light to Monitor Blood Pressure and Track Cancer Treatment Progress

November 7, 2024

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Research News

Brink Bites: From Microscopic Worlds to Cancer Disparities

October 29, 2024

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Funding Health Research

How ARPA-H Is Accelerating Funding in Biomedical, Medicine, and Health Research—and How BU’s Scientists Can Benefit

October 24, 2024

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Awards

BU Biomedical Engineer Wins a 2024 National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award

October 8, 2024

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Research News

Brink Bites: BU Research Beyond the Headlines

October 1, 2024

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Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

September 25, 2024

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

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Accolades

Three BU Scholars Receive 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships

February 20, 2024

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Cancer

What King Charles’ Cancer Could Mean for the Royal Family

February 9, 2024

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Skin Cancer

Innocent Mole or Skin Cancer? FDA Clears Device with BU-Developed Technology That Makes Detection Easier

February 8, 2024

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Cancer

New Cancer Cases Are Expected to Pass 2 Million This Year. What Does That Mean for All of Us?

January 30, 2024

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Black Women’s Health

Racism, Sexism, and the Crisis of Black Women’s Health

October 31, 2023

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Kilachand Awards

Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects

October 3, 2023

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Accolades

BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More

September 19, 2023

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Medicine

What’s Behind the Critical Shortage of Drugs for Cancer and Other Diseases

June 14, 2023

What’s Behind the Critical Shortage of Drugs for Cancer and Other Diseases