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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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Co-op and COVID: Working at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Leilani is a fourth year behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern, currently on her first co-op at Beth Israel. She was hired to be an assistant during behavior studies of mice, but like many students her co-op experience has been dramatically changed by the pandemic. We reached out to her to see what her experience is like, and how it is different from what she expected.
Childhood Trauma Changes Your Brain. But It Doesn’t Have to Be Permanent.
Neuroscientists at Northeastern are using rats to understand how trauma in infancy makes children, but especially girls, more likely to develop anxiety and other similar disorders later in life.