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Icefish Have Antifreeze in Their Blood, Anemia, and Osteoporosis. And They Feel Just Fine.
Northeastern professor H. William Detrich, a leader of an international collaboration that has recently sequenced the genome of the blackfin icefish.
March 01, 2019
Whooping Cough is Back. Here’s the Global Collaboration to Fight It.
Nearly 50 scientists collaborated with Physics Professor Sam Scarpino to develop a compendium on pertussis and dispute the reasoning for its resurgence worldwide.
February 21, 2019
Research Grants Awarded to Two Undergraduate Students
Two undergraduate students working in Professor Rebecca Shansky’s lab were awarded research grants from the Mindlin Foundation and Northeastern University.
January 30, 2019
Unraveling the Mysteries Hidden in DNA
New research from Northeastern Professor Mark Williams and Senior Research Scientist Micah McCauley have developed a novel approach to unfurling the mysteries tucked away in human DNA.
January 14, 2019
Six Northeastern Professors Named to List of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ Around the Globe
Six Northeastern University professors have been featured in the "The 2018 Highly Cited Researchers" list, which ranks researchers around the world who have produced papers that come in at the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.
January 09, 2019
Six Northeastern Professors Named to List of 'Highly Cited Researchers' Around the Globe
Six Northeastern University professors have been featured in the "The 2018 Highly Cited Researchers" list, which ranks researchers around the world who have produced papers that come in at the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.
January 09, 2019
These bacteria may be the key to treating clinical depression
Scientists estimate that we share our bodies with 38 trillion organisms that play an integral part in keeping us healthy and making us who we are. They crawl across our skin, cling to our intestines, and generally call our bodies home. Now, a study led by researchers at Northeastern shows that there is a potential link between the bacteria that live in our gut and clinical depression.
December 10, 2018
This drug could stop the opioid epidemic
More than 70,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses in 2017. The majority of those deaths were linked to opioids. This number has been rising for the past two decades and shows no signs of slowing down. Ganesh Thakur, an associate professor in Northeastern’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is hunting for a way to stop this epidemic.
December 06, 2018
This solver of scientific paradoxes has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Sciences
Kim Lewis, who has made several major discoveries in the fight against bacterial infections, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
November 28, 2018
Cancer research co-op opens the door to medical school for this student
Biochemistry student Brian Cortese found mentorship, experience, and opportunities through the CaNCURE program.
November 14, 2018
How an idea from a lab may change cancer treatments
In recent years, researchers have begun to fight cancer by genetically engineering a patient’s own immune system to target the disease. Quad Technologies, a company that grew out of a Northeastern research lab, has been developing technology to facilitate this process. This summer, Quad Technologies was acquired by a global life sciences company that will help […]
October 18, 2018
Rethinking how we sample Extracellular Vesicles – nano-scale delivery trucks between cells – may help us understand diseases like cancer
Almost all cells release Extracellular Vesicles, but our sampling methods aren't perfect. A new grant for Professor Alexander Ivanov aim to improve our sampling techniques, which may help understand EVs' role in cancer and other diseases.
October 12, 2018
Everything the human body does is guided by chemistry we don’t fully understand. Yet.
A group of 26 researchers at Northeastern is working on new technology that would allow doctors to zoom in on these minute interactions. The new Systems Bioanalysis and Chemical Imaging Institute will focus on finding ways to image the chemistry of our bodies.
October 10, 2018
Everything the human body does is guided by chemistry we don't fully understand. Yet.
A group of 26 researchers at Northeastern is working on new technology that would allow doctors to zoom in on these minute interactions. The new Systems Bioanalysis and Chemical Imaging Institute will focus on finding ways to image the chemistry of our bodies.
October 10, 2018