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NTDs – Neglected Tropical Diseases

Professor Michael Pollastri, a chemistry professor in the College of Science at Northeastern University, talked about NTDs - neglected tropical diseases.
February 27, 2013

The brakes of inflammation

In the last few decades, sci­en­tists have come to attribute an immuno­log­ical expla­na­tion to many can­cers.
February 26, 2013

A Burst for Bursts

The other day I starred the following headline in my RSS feed: “Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less.”
February 21, 2013

AAAS 2013: Predicting Human Behavior

If you’ve driven on the highway, you’ve seen it: The traffic jam appears out of nowhere and disappears just as mysteriously.
February 21, 2013

Researchers transcend boundaries for science

Throughout the 179th annual meeting of the Amer­ican Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence, North­eastern fac­ulty led pre­sen­ta­tions high­lighting their work to address real-​​world chal­lenges in areas ranging from health to tech­nology to sus­tain­ability.
February 19, 2013

Complex systems made simple

Just as the name implies, com­plex sys­tems are dif­fi­cult to tease apart. An organism’s genome, a bio­chem­ical reac­tion, or even a social net­work all con­tain many inter­de­pen­dent components—and changing any one of them can have per­va­sive effects on all the others.
February 15, 2013

How to start a termite ‘orgy’

There are more than 3,000 species of ter­mites in the world, all living in social colonies with dis­tinct hier­ar­chies.
February 11, 2013

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