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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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Northeastern’s Covid-19 testing center is ready to identify the omicron variant
As the world scrambles to make sense of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, Northeastern is ready to spot it if it enters our community. Northeastern’s COVID-19 testing laboratory can already detect the omicron variant through existing protocols. And that could save the university community precious time in identifying and responding to any threat […]
Omicron variant questions mount– answers are on the way
Scientists keep close watch of the omicron variant as it continues to spread across South Africa.
This bioengineering co-op gets hands-on with Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine
Ella Strzegowski landed a co-op at Moderna, where she uses chromatography to examine the molecules in the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine solution.
Q & A with Clarissa Halim, MS Biotechnology
What is your major, and when are you graduating? I’m studying Biotechnology, and I plan to graduate in December 2022, but May 2023 is also a possibility. Why did you decide to enroll at Northeastern University and pursue an advanced degree in biotechnology? Northeastern’s renowned co-op program was a key factor during my decision-making process. […]
Q&A with Marla Glean, MS Biotech
Marla Glean does a Q&A feature describing her experience as a Master's student in Biotech.
Q&A with Mehak Gupta, MS in Biotechnology
Biotech student does a Q&A session explaining her experience as a Master's student at Northeastern.
Q&A with Yash Shrinivas Bichu, MS Biotech
Q&A with Biotech graduate student.
Here’s how Northeastern is keeping an eye on possible Covid-19 variants on campus.
In order to keep the Northeastern community safe, the Northeastern Covid-19 testing facility will implement additional testing for positive patients to track and monitor possible variants.
When a heatwave comes, this scientist takes a shellfish’s perspective
Brian Helmuth, marine science and public policy professor at Northeastern, and his team built "robomussels" and other temperature loggers in an effort to find refugia for the mussels dying as a result of record-setting heatwaves.
This robot is going to map uncharted kelp forests in the Arctic–and the impact of climate change
Professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern, Mark Patterson, receives the Fulbright U.S. scholar award to further his research mapping uncharted kelp forests in the Canadian Arctic.
No needles? No problem. This COVID-19 vaccine could be inhaled.
Paul Whitford and a team of scientists develop an inhalable vaccine strategy in the hopes of offering a simple and efficient way of administering COVID-19 vaccines.
A class project inspired this healthcare device to solve a common drug storage problem
Theodora Christopher and Anastasia Mavridi received a Women Who Empower Innovator Award for their temperature-sensing device, SaluTemp.