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Network Scientists Identify 40 New Drugs to Test Against Covid-19
Researchers at Northeastern mapped the way proteins within human cells behave after the cells are hijacked by the virus to identify drugs that might be able to fight it. The team is now working with other experimental researchers to begin testing those drugs.
April 06, 2020
150 Years of Science in a Cosmic Web of Paper Trails
An analysis of Nature’s database by Barabási’s team reveals that interdisciplinarity has been increasing in science overall for the past 110 years. No longer are the scientific disciplines being siloed off from each other.
November 15, 2019
Personalized medicine: researchers identify 36 new genes implicated in cardiac disease
In a recently published paper, Northeastern Physics Professor Alain Karma and his team discuss the previously unknown genes they discovered that play a causal role in cardiac hypertrophy, which can lead to heart failure.
February 28, 2018
Northeastern researchers discover fundamental rules for how the brain controls movement
The human brain is a mysterious supercomputer. Billions of neurons buzz within an intricate network that controls our every thought, feeling, and movement. And we’ve only just begun to understand how it all works.
November 16, 2017
New study: Success can come at any age
New research led by Northeastern network scientist Albert-László Barabási shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, creative breakthroughs in science can come at any age, in the 20s, 40s, even 70s.
November 04, 2016
Northeastern researchers connect diseases based on their molecular similarities
Northeastern University network scientists have found a way to connect diseases based on their shared molecular interactions.
February 23, 2015
Researchers use science to predict success
Like the rest of the academic community, physicists rely on various quantitative factors to determine whether a researcher will enjoy long-term success.
October 04, 2013
A kid in a network shop
There are some questions that you don’t need to be a scientist to ask. You need to be a little kid.
September 25, 2013
How to quantify success
A growing number of researchers have begun developing creative ways to measure success from a quantitative point of view
June 19, 2013
Researchers to explore the ‘Science of Success’
We once thought it took a genius to be successful, but this is simply not the case.
June 11, 2013