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    Connie Phong wants to know how an animal adapted to live in a highly specialized environment — just below the freezing point for seawater — responds to warming oceans.

    How Northeastern scientists are using Antarctic sea spiders to study life on the edge

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    Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe has identified a way to target two of the deadliest cancer types with chemotherapy drugs but without the harms associated with chemotherapy.

    Northeastern researcher uses light to target and kill cancer cells

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  • Spotted in the Windy City: huskies swept away by groundbreaking research 

    Spotted in the Windy City: huskies swept away by groundbreaking research 

    Northeastern University students traveled to Chicago to attend the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s annual meeting.
  • Shayna Gordon ’25, Biochemistry

    Shayna Gordon ’25, Biochemistry

    Shayna Gordon '25, biochemistry, shares her co-op experience as a COS student.
  • Lily Garrett ’25, Biochemistry

    Lily Garrett ’25, Biochemistry

    Lily Garrett '25, biochemistry, shares her co-op experience as a COS student.
  • Ashlin Owen ‘26, Biochemistry

    Ashlin Owen ‘26, Biochemistry

    Ashlin Owen shares how her experience in class, the lab, and on co-op have shaped her perspective and career path.
  • As grad student, Northeastern co-op helps Bay Area startup develop device to prevent toxic algae blooms

    As grad student, Northeastern co-op helps Bay Area startup develop device to prevent toxic algae blooms

    Amelia Langan, husky alum, helped a Bay Area start up create a device that may help prevent toxic algae from growing in ocean waters.
  • Who’s afraid of iambic pentameter? Not the Northeastern Shakespeare Society

    Who’s afraid of iambic pentameter? Not the Northeastern Shakespeare Society

    “Shakespeare’s themes are universal and should be able to be viewed by everyone,” says Ainsley Niven-Merriman, assistant director of the Northeastern Shakespeare Society.
  • Two generations apart, both proud Northeastern grads

    Two generations apart, both proud Northeastern grads

    Wearing a golden robe and black cap, Karl Anderson sat proudly in a suite above the field at Fenway Park on Sunday. On the field below, Anderson’s grandson Karlan DeWitt marched in the procession wearing his black gown and mortarboard. 
  • Biochemistry student awarded Senior Leadership Award

    Biochemistry student awarded Senior Leadership Award

    It was an intimate setting befitting their years of service. At a long table in a small room overseeing the Boston campus, interspersed among President Joseph E. Aoun and seven members of his Northeastern leadership team, sat nine exceptional students who will be graduating this weekend.
  • Discover BMB Conference: Undergraduate wins 1st place

    Discover BMB Conference: Undergraduate wins 1st place

    Pipe cleaners are essential for learning biochemistry. At least, that's what Dr. Stevens-Truss - a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan - hammered home at her lecture last month.
  • Spotlight: The National Society of Black Women in Medicine

    Spotlight: The National Society of Black Women in Medicine

    “People are meant to exist in communities” The National Society of Black Women in Medicine at NU are making that change. Toun Olorungbemi, co-Founder & charter president of the National Society of Black Women in Medicine at Northeastern I am a Nigerian-American university student at Northeastern, studying Behavioral Neuroscience in the College of Science with […]
  • Co-op Spotlight: Q&A with Chris Jurcisin, BS in Biochemistry

    Co-op Spotlight: Q&A with Chris Jurcisin, BS in Biochemistry

    Chris Jurcisin is in his 3rd-year here at Northeastern and is enrolled in the biochemistry program. Learn more about Chris’ successful first co-op with a start-up pharmaceutical company here in Boston. 1. Tell us about yourself. My name is Chris Jurcisin, and I am a 3rd-year biochemistry major. I chose this major because I have always been […]
  • Biochemistry students attend American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting

    Biochemistry students attend American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting

    Four Northeastern University biochemistry students– Kai Beattie, Ashley Brown, Gabrielle Hernandez, and Joie Sun– represented the university’s American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) chapter at the society’s national meeting in Philadelphia.