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Biochemistry
Biochemistry Students Selected for Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award
Undergraduates in NU’s American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chapter were selected for the 2020 ‘Chapter of the Year’ honor
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
The Coronavirus Might Have Weak Spots. Machine Learning Could Help Find Them.
What makes SARS-CoV-2 so infectious? The answer is in its proteins. Mary Jo Ondrechen and Penny Beuning, professors of chemistry and chemical biology, are using machine learning to investigate these proteins and begin to understand how to slow the spread of the virus.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
On the Front Lines of COVID-19 with COS Alumna Dr. Ali Wallace
The Biochemistry '13 alumna took time out of her busy schedule to give us an on-the-ground look at COVID-19 preparations at MGH and to discuss her formative experience here at Northeastern.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Could Houses of the Future Be Made by Bacteria?
Imagine if we could grow a building the way coral polyps grow a reef, or if living cells in our clothes could break down sweat and body odor. It’s not science fiction, says associate professor Neel Joshi. It’s the future of scientific research.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology, Physics, Psychology
Six Northeastern Professors Named to 2019 List of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ Around the Globe
The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list features has included six Northeastern researchers who rank in in the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology
We Know Exercise Is Good for Your Skin. This Protein Mimics Those Effects in Mice.
Skin cells lose their ability to heal themselves with age. Northeastern biologist Justin Crane is testing how a new treatment to heal wounds in older mice can help researchers understand the mechanisms of healing human skin cells.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology
A New Antibiotic Has Been Hiding in the Gut of a Tiny Worm. It May Be Our Best Weapon Against Drug-resistant Bacteria.
After two years of work, a team of researchers led by Kim Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of biology, announced their discovery of darobactin, which can kill resistant microbes known as gram-negative bacteria.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology
Tapping into the Power of Mitochondria
Dr. Dori Woods and her associates at Northeastern University recent research about the nature and behavior of mitochondria could one day be used to better understand cell function as a whole
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotechnology
Iron: The Swiss Army Knife for Bacteria
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.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Synthetic Squid Can save You from Sunburn
Northeastern’s Camille Martin, a former graduate student, and Leila Deravi, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, are working to recreate a sun-blocking chemical that naturally occurs in cephalopods, a species that includes squid, octopuses, and cuttlefish.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology
Small Pharma: Inside the World of Orphan Diseases, with Alumna Agnes Rafalko
Agnes Rafalko got her PhD in proteomics and nanomedicine at Northeastern. She now works as the Chief Scientific Officer of Glycomine, a startup she herself founded that works on drugs for orphan diseases.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
They Want to Reveal the Chemistry of Every Enzyme Ever
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.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
A Disease You May Not Have Heard of Kills 20,000 People Every Year. He’s Working to Combat It.
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.
August 05, 2020
Biochemistry, Biology
Eye of Newt and Leg of Axolotl: Northeastern University Hosted an International Conference on Salamander Research
Northeastern is proud to have hosted the 2019 Salamander Models in Cross-Disciplinary Biological Research Conference.
August 05, 2020