A special year-end edition of Wired UK includes a prospective on the state of science in 2013, featuring the cutting-edge work of 25 researchers from across the globe. Three of them are Northeastern originals: College of Science professors Mike Pollastri and Bill Hancock and Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy and Director of the ...
A few years ago chemistry and chemical biology professor Mike Pollastri met a researcher name Larry Ruben at a conference. Ruben was presenting a poster on an enzyme that is important to the survival trypanosoma brucei, the culprit parasite in the neglected tropical disease known as African sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis. The poster ...
I’ve only been gone for a few months, but it feels like eons since I donned a pair of goggles and got my gloves dirty in a chem lab. Today I tagged along with a couple of fellow science communications ladies to peek around some of the labs on campus. First we stopped in to ...