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Climate and Health

Human Health Is Suffering Because of Climate Change

May 31, 2023

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Racism

Experiencing Racism Increases Black Women’s Heart Disease Risk, BU Research Finds

March 1, 2023

Behavior Change

How to Help People Break a Bad Habit (or Start a Good Habit)—Even if They Don’t Want To

January 18, 2023

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

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Birth Control

A New Breed of Nonhormonal Birth Control

November 30, 2022

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COVID-19

BU Responds to NIH Funding Clarification Request after False Stories about NEIDL’s COVID Work

November 4, 2022

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Accolades

NIH Honors Two BU Researchers “Poised to Blaze New Paths of Discovery”

October 18, 2022

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NEIDL Director

Nancy J. Sullivan, Ebola Vaccine and Treatment Pioneer, Named New NEIDL Director

September 16, 2022

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Cancer treatments

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

September 8, 2022

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Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes Have a Bizarre Sense of Smell, Study Finds

August 18, 2022

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Cognitive Health

Living Near Greenery Could Give You a Brain Boost—and Reduce Dementia Risk

May 4, 2022

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Long COVID

Researchers Race to Understand Long COVID in National Study

March 18, 2022

LISTEN NOW

Do COVID Vaccines Affect the Menstrual Cycle?

January 14, 2022

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Neuroscience

Why Do We All Feel Touch Differently?

January 6, 2022

Social Sciences

How Technology Has Transformed Social and Behavioral Research

December 6, 2021

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School of Medicine

MED’s Biology of the Lung Funded through Its 50th—Yes, 50th—Year

September 23, 2021

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Public Health

Do COVID Vaccines Affect Menstruation?

September 9, 2021

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Language Rehabilitation

Scientists Can Predict How Well a Stroke Survivor Will Recover Language Skills Using Computer Simulations of the Brain

June 3, 2021

Anna Honko mixes the nanosponges with live SARS-CoV-2 virus and lung cells at the NEIDL, evaluating how well the nanosponges can deter the novel coronavirus from infecting lung cells

Infectious Diseases

Where Is COVID Research Going Next?

March 26, 2021

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Marine Science

The Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity

March 12, 2021

The Deep Ocean Reveals Surprising Discovery about Immunity