Boston University

Microbiology & Molecular Biology

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

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

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

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

Genetics

Fighting the Darkness

January 22, 2016

Neil Ganem Boston University

Cancer

Every Cell Has a Story

December 22, 2015

New Chief Damage Controlman Keith Frizell stands at attention after being pinned to chief petty officer during a chief pinning ceremony aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

Psychiatry & Psychology

Suicide Risk in Veterans: A New Indicator?

November 11, 2015

Regenerative Medicine

Stem Cells to Thyroid Cells

November 6, 2015

Anurag Singh, a MED assistant professor, studies NRAS in melanoma with a three-year grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance

Cancer

Unraveling Melanoma’s Mysteries

November 2, 2015

Unraveling Melanoma’s Mysteries