Biology Department at Northeastern University
12/27/2016
Congratulations on the great news coming from the Chai Lab!
http://www.northeastern.edu/cos/2016/12/yunrong-chai-nsf-career-award/
For Northeastern researchers, small microbes bring big success - College of Science Though his career has focused on life at the microscopic scale, Assistant Professor of Biology Yunrong Chai knows that his field of microbiology has enormous implications for society.
05/21/2016
02/08/2016
Dr. Javier Apfeld, one of the newest additions to the Biology Department faculty, recently had a paper published in Nature; take a read if you haven't yet!
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16550.html
The temporal scaling of Caenorhabditis elegans ageing : Nature : Nature Publishing Group The process of ageing makes death increasingly likely, involving a random aspect that produces a wide distribution of lifespan even in homogeneous populations. The study of this stochastic behaviour may link molecular mechanisms to the ageing process that determines lifespan. Here, by collecting hig…
12/15/2015
12/03/2015
A great article about the story of Slava Epstein and his work with Kim Lewis to identify new antibiotics.
http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/03/antibiotics-bacteria-research/
A radically simple idea may open the door to a new world of antibiotics Scientists are using radically simple techniques to uncover antibiotics that are fundamentally different than the ones doctors prescribe today.
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