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Biology

Howard Eichenbaum, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, director of Boston University Center for Memory and Brain

Neuroscience

The Right Memory at the Right Time

July 26, 2016

James Pokines, assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine

Anthropology

Bone Detective

July 21, 2016

Pheidole dentata minor worker ants

Biology

Ants Don’t Get Alzheimer’s

July 11, 2016

A spider-shaped pericyte, seen here in light blue, encircles a capillary, helping maintain the blood-brain barrier

Neurology

Genetic Risk for Stroke

June 30, 2016

red eyed tree frog tadpole embryos

Biology

Red-eyed Treefrog Embryos

June 28, 2016

Professor David Sherr, director of a new BU/Tufts consortium researching environmental causes of breast cancer

Cancer

New Consortium to Study Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer

June 27, 2016

Close-up photo of the prototype zika virus diagnostic test, reader and paper tests

Zika Virus

New Tool to Diagnose Zika

June 13, 2016

Ben Wolozin, professor of pharmacology and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine

Alzheimer’s Disease

Toxic Tau

June 7, 2016

Photonics

Light Beams and DNA Cages Could Deliver Drugs to Just the Right Spot

June 7, 2016

Washington Redskins' John Riggins busts through New England Patriots defensive player Tim Fox early in the first quarter at Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 3, 1978

CTE

CTE Investigators Launch $16 Million Study

June 3, 2016

Professor Daniel Segrè and PhD candidate Allyson Byrd at the White House launch of the National Microbiome Initiative

Biology

BU Scientists Attend Launch of National Microbiome Initiative

May 17, 2016

Aaron Beeler, Boston University Chemistry Department

Accolades

Chemist Awarded NSF Early Career Grant

May 11, 2016

Jennifer Grodsky

Medicine

Grodsky Joins United for Medical Research Board

May 9, 2016

Aging

Aging Too Fast, Too Young

April 19, 2016

iLet artificial pancreas

Diabetes

Hope for the Battle against Type 1 Diabetes

April 5, 2016

Researcher at Boston University NEIDL facility holds a vial containing a sample of the Zika virus

Zika Virus

Medical Campus Experts Gather to Confer about Zika

March 25, 2016

Aedes aegypti mosquito

Infectious Diseases

The Next Pandemic

February 2, 2016

Lindsay A. Farrer, Boston University School of Medicine biomedical genetics division

Genetics

Fighting the Darkness

January 22, 2016

Elise Morgan, professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Engineering

Bonecrusher

January 22, 2016

Sergio Fagherazzi

Biology

Normal Weather Drives Salt Marsh Erosion

December 23, 2015

Normal Weather Drives Salt Marsh Erosion