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Engineering & Computing

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

Bio Design team (Doug Densmore, Chris Chen, Mo Khalil, Wilson Wong) for BU Research story.

Engineering

Biological Design Center Comes to Life

May 5, 2015

Azer Bestavros

Business & Social Sciences

Computational Thinking Breaks a Logjam

April 27, 2015

Physics

The Atom Smasher

April 23, 2015

Lucy Hutyra, Conor Gately, and Ian Sue Wing, from the GRS department of earth and environment, developed a new way to measure CO2 emissions from cars. The new system, called DARTE, could help cities combat climate change. Photo by Michael D. Spencer

Climate Change

A New Map for Greenhouse Gas

April 21, 2015

Georgios Zervas, professor of marketing at Boston University School of Management

Marketing

At Airbnb, Where Every Stay Is Above Average

April 16, 2015

Nancy Koppell, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, co-director of Boston University Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology

Mathematics & Statistics

Kopell Wins Israeli Nonprofit’s Mathematical Neuroscience Prize

April 10, 2015

Data Science

Mapmaker/Matchmaker

March 26, 2015

Jack Ammerman, Robert Hudson, and Vika Zafrin

Data Science

BU Adopts Opt-Out Open Access Policy

March 25, 2015

Darrell Kotton, Connie Phillips and Tom Bifano, winners of Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Capital Grant Awards

Medicine

BU Wins Life Sciences Capital Grants

March 24, 2015

Darrell Kotton

Medicine

Kotton Envisions Regenerative Medicine in 2034

March 23, 2015

BU graduates Marc Albanese (left) and Yaopeng Zhou, founders of Smart Vision Labs

Photonics

Vision Quest

March 11, 2015

Assistant Professor Douglas Holmes (ME)

Engineering

Holmes, Stepp Receive NSF CAREER Award

February 27, 2015

Shop for Drugs

Addiction

Patients Who ‘Doctor Shop’ for Opioids

February 26, 2015

Anthony Janetos led the team designing the National Climate Indicators System.

Climate Change

Building a Better Barometer

February 13, 2015

Edward Damiano, Boston University biomedical engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineer Damiano in Time

February 3, 2015

AIMBE Fellows 2015, Muhammad Zaman, Elise Morgan

Engineering

Zaman, Morgan Honored

January 23, 2015

Doug Densmore and Swapnil Bhatia pose for a photo on Friday, February 6, 2015. Photo By Jackie Ricciardi

Engineering Biology

Scaling Up Synthetic Biology

January 23, 2015

The TB test Sharon Wong is developing would evaporate most of the liquid and concentrate a TB biomarker at the heated portion of the strip, thereby enhancing downstream detection of the biomarker.

Chemistry

A Paper Strip Test for TB?

December 18, 2014

A Paper Strip Test for TB?