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What Secrets Do Ballet Dancers Hold For People With Disabilities? Or For Robots?
Dagmar Sternad is looking to ballet dancers to find answers for people with disabilities through studies of human motor control and learning.
March 29, 2019
These Cells Protect Your Organs, but Cancer May Send Them Running. Here’s a Theory Why.
Assistant Professor of Physics Max Bi helped develop a model of cell behavior, explaining why certain conditions cause epithelial cells to transition from a solid to a fluid-like state.
March 28, 2019
These Cells Protect Your Organs, but Cancer May Send Them Running. Here's a Theory Why.
Assistant Professor of Physics Max Bi helped develop a model of cell behavior, explaining why certain conditions cause epithelial cells to transition from a solid to a fluid-like state.
March 28, 2019
Student Spotlight: Alex Lovely
Graduate student Alex Lovely shares some details and advice while reflecting on his personal experience here at Northeastern University.
March 20, 2019
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
This Might be Why Some Tumors Grow Back Aggressively After Cancer Treatments
Northeastern researchers may have discovered why cancer cells can regenerate after treatment.
February 25, 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
Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology
You Want To Manage Your Anger Better. Your Brain Wants You to Stay Alive. Here’s How You Can Do Both.
Can you discern the differences among all the subtle shades of your anger? Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how emotion and the brain are linked.
February 21, 2019
You Want To Manage Your Anger Better. Your Brain Wants You to Stay Alive. Here's How You Can Do Both.
Can you discern the differences among all the subtle shades of your anger? Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how emotion and the brain are linked.
February 21, 2019
Building the Perfect Co-op, Cell by Cell
Second year cell and molecular biology student Ella Brunsting designed her own co-op, ultimately placing her in Belgium at the GIGA Institute.
February 13, 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
What Can Ballet Dancers Teach Us About Balance?
Biology Professor Dagmar Sternad takes a deeper look at the human body's ability to balance.
January 30, 2019
Fall Defenses in the Biology Department
Three doctoral candidates - Meining Carly Ching, Tommy Tashjian, and Antonia Vitalo, - have all successfully defended their dissertations.
January 28, 2019
The Science (and Co-ops) Behind Boston Beer
An exploration of Boston Beer Company's R&D Brewery, through the eyes of three College of Science co-ops.
January 18, 2019