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Labs

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Opioids

Testing a New Approach to Solving the Opioid Epidemic

September 30, 2025

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Clownfish

Clownfish and Anemones Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change

September 18, 2025

Student Research

Research Program Helps Bridge the Opportunity Gap for Young Engineers

September 8, 2025

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NEIDL

Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub

May 27, 2025

Innovator of the Year

Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2025

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Hearing Loss

Trouble Hearing in Noisy Places and Crowded Spaces? Researchers Say New BU-Developed Algorithm Could Help Hearing Aid Users

April 22, 2025

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Microbes

Microbes Reveal Clues About Extraterrestrial Life

April 16, 2025

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Research

What Is Convergent Research and Why Is BU Embracing It?

March 6, 2025

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Awards

Three BU Researchers Win National Honor for Early-Career Scientists and Engineers

February 4, 2025

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

Photonics

What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure?

January 8, 2025

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NEIDL

West Nile, Zika, Coronavirus: This BU Researcher Is Taking On Some of the World’s Most Serious Viruses—and He Plans to Win

November 21, 2024

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Infectious Diseases

BU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get Major Upgrade with NIH Grant

October 29, 2024

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Lung Disease

Global Biopharma Giant GSK and BU Announce Collaboration to Pioneer New Lung Disease Treatments

October 17, 2024

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Plant Lab

Studying Plant Genomics Can Bring Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering Breakthroughs

October 17, 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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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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Soft Robots

Just How Safe Are Soft Robots?

September 18, 2024

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Undergraduate Research

Getting Their Hands Dirty in the Lab—and in the Charles River

August 26, 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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Scientific Diving

Scuba Diving Safely for Marine Biology Research

July 9, 2024

Scuba Diving Safely for Marine Biology Research