“Sir Richard Roberts, a Nobel lau­reate and glob­ally rec­og­nized leader in genomics and mol­e­c­ular biology, has joined North­eastern Uni­ver­sity as a Dis­tin­guished Uni­ver­sity Pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Sci­ence.”–News@Northeastern article by Angela Herring

Congratulations to Dr. Dori Woods and Prof. Jon Tilly on having a paper included in the recent Science Magazine special publication: Ten Critical Topics in Reproductive Medicine.

Abstract of paper co-authored by Prof. Yunrong Chai published in eLife Lens; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01501

In a paper pub­lished last week in the journal Nature Chem­istry, physics pro­fessor Mark Williams and his team present new research that elu­ci­dates a long-​​held paradox about a pro­tein called APOBEC3G that could trans­form HIV drug discovery.

In a recently released paper Alessandro Vespig­nani and his col­lab­o­ra­tors pro­vide hard numbers regarding accidental escape of a lethal virus. And they aren't good.

Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of Biology Kim Lewis and his team have published a study that presents a novel approach to treat and eliminate MRSA.

Three Northeastern spinoff companies were highlighted in a recent report by The Science Coalition as examples of how federally funded university research and the companies created from that work can boost the U.S. economy.

Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato is a science journalist who writes for such outlets as National Geographic, Everyday Health, and Scientific American. She was the #sciencechat guest on Wednesday, October 23, 2013.

Biology and environmental science student Clint Valen­tine is always searching for his next big adven­ture.

Every fourth breath you take comes from cyanobac­teria, which pop­u­late the planet’s waters.

Matt Hall, @kwinkunks, is a geologist turned geophysicist with Agile*. He was the #sciencechat guest on Wednesday, October 16.

Social insects such as ants, ter­mites, and some bees and wasps live in a sort of eternal “air­plane envi­ron­ment."

In 2012, Jonathan Tilly's team pub­lished research in which it iden­ti­fied that certain cells in adult human ovaries pro­duce viable new eggs.

Dr. Mark Nedelman of Ekam Imaging talks at the Accelerating Translational Research for Drug Discovery conference at Northeastern University.