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Nanoscience

Collage: (left) Ji-Xin Cheng poses against a blue background. An Asian man wearing a light blue checkered collared shirt smiles and poses with arms crossed. (right) Lei Tian stands and poses in his lab. An Asian man wearing glasses and a gray collared shirt smiles and poses with one arm resting on top of a microscope.

Accolades

Two BU Researchers Receive over $1 Million Each in Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

January 24, 2023

NSF CAREER Awards

BU’s 2022 NSF CAREER Award Winners Are Innovating Data Systems and Single-Molecule Circuits

December 13, 2022

Photo of green and orange gliding tree frogs swarming on leaves against a black background.

Research in Photos

From Lovesick Frogs to Music-Making to Mouse Memories, Photo Contest Shows Stunning Breadth of BU Research

September 27, 2022

Image: Computer generated rendering of T cells, a type of white blood cell that defends the body from invaders. A large blue blob with teal tiny blobs on it is shown.

Cancer treatments

Immune Cells Engineered to Battle Cancer Can Be Turned “On” or “Off”

September 8, 2022

A photo of grippers holding a piece of paper.

Technology Development

BU Ignition Awards–From the Lab to Your Life

June 6, 2022

NSF CAREER Awards

5 Projects That Push the Limits of Physics, Fabrication Techniques, Algorithm Design

June 30, 2021

A photo of a mushroom with a red head and white dots

Soil Microbiome

Why Scientists Want to Solve an Underground Mystery about Where Microbes Live

May 7, 2021

Detail photo of a fluorescent pink deep sea soft coral with a squat lobster peaking out from inside the coral

Marine Science

The Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity

March 12, 2021

Composite image of 2020 NSF CAREER Award winners from Boston University

NSF CAREER Awards

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

August 5, 2020

A photo of the new COVID testing protocol at Boston University.

COVID Testing

Robots, Nanobeads, and Data Modeling—The Science behind BU’s Coronavirus Testing Plan

August 4, 2020

nanosponges containing fragments of lung cell membranes in a cell culture in a NEIDL laboratory

Coronavirus

Tiny, Decoy “Sponges” Attract Coronavirus Away from Lung Cells

June 18, 2020

Scientific illustration of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), otherwise known as Nightmare Bacteria.

Superbugs

Superbug detector is first diagnostic to launch from CARB-X

September 24, 2019

Quantum dots glow different colors under UV light depending on their size. Dennis and her colleagues are developing dots that will respond to deep red and near-infrared light—same idea, not as pretty.

Nanotechnology

What Are Quantum Dots?

June 5, 2017

Graphene sheets can be stacked horizontally to form channels, called graphene nanochannels, or rolled into carbon nanotubes.

Engineering

Duan Receives NSF CAREER Award

March 23, 2017

Liver-like tissue formation in human-induced pluripotent stem cells. The research team's robotic approach to engineering living cells could lead to technologies that transform human stem cells into tissues and organs for transplantation or drug design.

Biomedical Engineering

A Robotic Approach to Engineering Living Cells

May 14, 2015

Xin Zhang

Biomaterials

Engineering Professor Selected as ASME Fellow

May 7, 2015

Grinstaff Image

Engineering

Tracking Osteoarthritis with Nanoparticles

December 3, 2014

Tyrone Porter

Nanomedicine

All in the Timing

July 14, 2014

All in the Timing