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“We see how much the world is changing,” Northeastern student and Rhodes Scholar Kritika Singh told an audience of students, researchers, clinicians, and industry experts on Friday. “People, planet, and technology need to change along with it in order to have a healthier and safer world.”

Imagine if we could grow a building the way coral polyps grow a reef, or if living cells in our clothes could break down sweat and body odor. It’s not science fiction, says associate professor Neel Joshi. It’s the future of scientific research.

The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list features has included six Northeastern researchers who rank in in the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.

“Either the screening, detection, and isolation in China will be able to contain the epidemic there, or it will be a global issue,” says Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern. “And this will be decided in the next couple of weeks.”

Student Caitlyn Ark journals about her dialogue of civilizations experience in Romania and Crete.

Northeastern students are surveying a coral reef off the coast of Panama for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease, which threatens twenty species that comprise the heart of the Caribbean’s coral reefs.

The goal of this project was to explore how to control and manipulate the spontaneous polymerization of collagen, the primary material that makes up native tissue, in order to increase the accessibility of collagen in the design of biomaterials and regenerative medicine. In our previous work, we demonstrated that we could increase both the solubility and […]

The axolotl salamander regenerates its limbs and tail by mounting a massive proliferative response in cells adjacent to the injury. To study this proliferative response, we created a line of axolotls where cells fluoresce different colors depending on where the cell is in the cell cycle; cells that are diving or preparing to divide fluoresce […]

Contrast sensitivity, the ability to distinguish the foreground from the background is the foundation of human pattern vision. For this reason, contrast sensitivity has been considered as a major barometer of human visual function. By capitalizing on deep learning techniques and retinal imaging data, we showed that human contrast sensitivity can be reliably predicted from […]

The antibiotics currently used to treat Lyme disease are broad-spectrum, damage the microbiome, and select for resistance in non-target bacteria. A screen of soil micro-organisms revealed a compound (Hygromycin A) highly selective against spirochetes, including Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease). The mechanism of selectivity is puzzling because hygromycin A targets the ribosome. Hygromycin A […]

The institute, scheduled to open in the spring, is designed to educate generations of talent for the digital and life sciences sectors, and drive sustained economic growth in Portland, the state of Maine, and northern New England. “The Roux Institute represents a significant expansion of our model,” said Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern.

Northeastern graduate Amanda Dwyer did her doctoral research on how corals survive changing ocean conditions. Her next task is to help reduce the impact of billions of tons of plastic in the world’s oceans.