News Archive - Northeastern University College of Science

Iron: The Swiss Army Knife for Bacteria

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotechnology

Dr. Yunrong Chai and his team discovered new, essential uses for iron in biofilms, the bacterial populations that colonize our bodies, our hospitals, and our world.

08/13/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Penny Beuning and Mary Jo Ondrechen work in their lab in Hurtig Hall on August 13, 2019. Beuning and Ondrechen analyze amino acids to to create a new way of identifying what different proteins in our body do. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

They Want to Reveal the Chemistry of Every Enzyme Ever

Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern are using a combination of computational predictions and experimental testing to explore the connection between the chemical make-up of an enzyme and its function.

Richard Wamai, an associate professor of cultures, societies, and global studies at Northeastern, helped to build a research and treatment center in Kenya to combat visceral leishmaniasis, the second-most deadly parasitic disease after malaria. Photos by Natalia Jidovanu for Northeastern University

A nurse and pharmacist admit 10-year old Lopeto Losile to the new ward of the Chemolingot Sub-County Hospital. Losile’s father observes the process. Photo by Natalia Jidovanu for Northeastern University

A Disease You May Not Have Heard of Kills 20,000 People Every Year. He’s Working to Combat It.

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Visceral leishmaniasis causes 20,000 deaths every year, yet many people have never even heard of it. Hopefully, the opening of a new research and treatment center at Chemolingot Hospital will change both of those things.

The Mexican axolotl salamander can regenerate many body parts, including its limbs and the spinal cord. Photo by Artem Lysenko from Pexels

Eye of Newt and Leg of Axolotl: Northeastern University Hosted an International Conference on Salamander Research

Biochemistry, Biology

Northeastern is proud to have hosted the 2019 Salamander Models in Cross-Disciplinary Biological Research Conference.

James Monaghan, assistant professor in the College of Science, researches axolotl salamanders on July 19, 2019. Monaghan studies the salamanders in order to better understand complex tissue regeneration. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

The axolotl, an odd-looking salamander from Mexico, can regrow its limbs, organs, and even parts of its eyes flawlessly, and without scarring. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

This Salamander Can Regenerate Limbs like Deadpool. Can It Teach Us to Do the Same?

Biochemistry, Biology

James Monaghan, associate professor of biology at Northeastern, is studying the axolotl, a type of salamander native to Mexico because of its ability to regrow lost or injured body parts. Monaghan hopes that ability might one day be transferable to humans.

Student Nohelly Derosiers transfers C. elegans in Javier Apfeld’s lab at the Mugar Life Sciences Building. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

How Long Will We Live? The Answer Isn’t in a Crystal Ball. But It Might Be in Our Brains.

Biochemistry, Biology

Northeastern biology professor Javier Apfeld can extend the lifespan of a worm by manipulating how its brain processes information. Now he wants to know why.

Northeastern graduates Francis Nimick, left, and Amanda Stroiney, right, work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer. Stroiney says that she wouldn’t be working at Outcomes4Me, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if not for the opportunity to do co-op at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of the university’s CaNCURE program. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

The Program That's Training the Students who could Transform Cancer Treatment

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

Northeastern graduates work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer.

Northeastern graduates Francis Nimick, left, and Amanda Stroiney, right, work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer. Stroiney says that she wouldn’t be working at Outcomes4Me, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if not for the opportunity to do co-op at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of the university’s CaNCURE program. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

The Program That’s Training the Students who could Transform Cancer Treatment

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

Northeastern graduates work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer.