Life sciences research blossoms at Northeastern

Forget thinking outside the box. Northeastern researchers smash through the box.

For many years, they’ve known what more and more scholars are coming to realize: That complex systems can’t be understood by looking only at the individual parts. That, in all fields, transforming knowledge comes when we study the interactive workings of the whole, in its living activity.

This is why experiential learning is so prized on Huntington Avenue, why cross-disciplinary efforts are so plentiful and productive. North­eastern researchers solve problems not by focusing narrowly on a particular issue, but by considering how this issue affects that one, and why, and what a single relationship may reveal about a whole network of connections.

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