Boston University

Microbiology & Molecular Biology

Officers of 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Ready First 1st Armored Division, participate in an urban combat exercise at a training facility on Fort Bliss, Texas.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Links Found among Concussion, Genes, and Alzheimer’s

February 16, 2017

Ebola virus under a microscope

Ebola

Blood Test May Predict Who Lives or Dies with Ebola

January 23, 2017

Chemistry

New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

January 17, 2017

Healthy senior with swimming board

Aging

Biomarker Patterns in Blood Predict Healthy Aging

January 6, 2017

Ahmad “Mo” Khalil, Assistsant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Engineering Biology

Khalil Wins NIH New Innovator Award

December 21, 2016

Up close Image of brown fat

Obesity

All Fat Is Not Created Equal

December 15, 2016

mushrooms and fungus growing on a log

Biology

Why Fungi Rule the World

November 15, 2016

model of active human apoptosome

Medicine

A New Look at the “Wheel of Death”

November 10, 2016

photo of a ververt monkey

Anthropology

Why Do Monkeys Get Fat?

October 25, 2016

ebola virus

Ebola

A New Lead on Treatment for Ebola

September 30, 2016

Female Aedes aegypti mosquito on skin

Zika Virus

Zika Strikes Miami

August 9, 2016

Carmela Abraham with lab assistants in her lab at Boston University School of Medicine

Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Start-up Gets $1.49 Million from NIH

August 5, 2016

Kevin Outterson, professor of health law, Boston University School of Law

Antibiotics

Law School Guides Global Effort to Create New Antibiotics

July 28, 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

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

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

BU Scientists Attend Launch of National Microbiome Initiative