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How worried should you be about BA.2?
Alessandro Vespignani and Jared Auclair discuss what the new COVID-19 variant implies for our future.
April 05, 2022
Cross-COS Colloquium: Nanosensors for Imaging the Chemistry of the Body
Heather Clark, Professor of Bioengineering in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology department discusses Nanosensors for Imaging the Chemistry of the Body, and answers questions following her presentation.
March 23, 2022
Pair of Northeastern research and community leaders win prestigious NSF grant
Two Northeastern faculty members, biology professor Tovah Day and chemistry professor Steven Lopez have received National Science Foundation CAREER grants, awarded to early-career academics with the potential to serve as role models in research and education.
March 21, 2022
Student-led collaboration explains how worms navigate a world of food and toxins
A new study from a Northeastern-led collaboration, looking into the C. elegans worms’ interactions with their microbiome, found that the worms are willing to leave a bacterial food source when they’re exposed to one of their deadliest toxins and identified the driving neurological mechanism behind it.
March 17, 2022
How squid camouflage could help prevent skin cancer in humans
A team of Northeastern scientists is using the chemistry of squid skin to create a wearable device that senses damaging levels of UV radiation.
February 23, 2022
Pooled testing can make COVID-19 surveillance more efficient. But is it accurate?
Pooled testing is a tactic used by many large-scale universities to conduct COVID testing that saves time and resources. Jared Auclair comments on the reliability of this method.
February 16, 2022
COVID-19 isn’t going away. But now we know how to live with it.
A new normal; professors Jared Auclair and Neil Maniar discuss how our world has adjusted since 2020 to accommodate COVID-19 and the new way of life it has produced.
February 16, 2022
Three Northeastern leaders receive lifetime honor for prolific scientific contributions
Professor Penny Beuning, chair of the chemistry and chemical biology department; Elizabeth Mynatt, dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences; and Hazel Sive, dean of the College of Arts and Science, have all been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
January 28, 2022
How these worms avoid getting poisoned
After the microscopic roundworms he was studying survived a toxic chemical environment, professor Javier Apfeld was intrigued to discover their tactic for protection against chemical foe.
January 19, 2022
Do viruses such as the coronavirus become less deadly?
Jared Auclair explains virus mutations, and what this means for Covid-19.
December 14, 2021
This student’s interdisciplinary research lands him a Churchill Scholarship nomination.
Churchill Scholarship nominee, Cameron Young, shares his NU experience at the College of Science and College of Engineering.
December 01, 2021
Caroline Consoli shares her Northeastern University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society experience
Student shares her NU experience at the College of Science as well as how to get involved in NUSAAC.
December 01, 2021
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 […]
November 30, 2021
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.
November 30, 2021