What are those wonky line drawings to the left, you ask? They are visual representations of four molecules that Professor Richard Deth (rhymes with teeth) and his grad student, Malav Trivedi, think might hold the key to autism. The one on the far left you’re probably familiar with…although hopefully not too familiar. BCM-7 is a ...
I’m about halfway through physics professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s book, Bursts. I’ll be writing about “bursty behavior” for the news at northeastern soon, but for today’s blog purposes suffice to say that humans behave in a “bursty” pattern instead of uniformly across time. For example, you probably don’t write an email once every twenty minutes all ...
Salem Zahmi grew up under a very hot sun. So it’s no wonder that this graduate student from the United Arab Emirates is studying solar energy. He hopes to contribute to a growing research campaign in the UAE that is looking to take advantage of the country’s renewable resources as it recognizes the unsustainable nature ...
As a Freshman, Monyrath Chan became the first Torch Scholar to pursue research at Northeastern. Torch is a scholarship program dedicated to closing the achievement gap for first-generation, low-income students from diverse backgrounds. Torch students receive comprehensive support that improves their college retention rate, leadership opportunities, social capital and academic achievement. Chan used that support ...
Today I met a pretty awesome person (who looks uncannily like my uncle). Professor of pharmaceutical sciences Ban-An Khaw is an immunology guy, or at least that’s how he classified himself when I asked for his background story. And what an interesting story it is! A few decades ago, Khaw figured out a way to ...
Targeted drug delivery is a hot topic these days. Chemotherapy, for example, blindly kills anything in its path — these drugs don’t distinguish between healthy cells and cancerous cells; they just kill cells. Period. Professor Vladimir Torchilin and his buddies at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence are developing nanoscale drug delivery technologies, which I ...