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A Walk on the Wildling Side By Theodore Fisher, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Source: Shutterstock This past August, researchers from the National Institute of Health published a study in Science aimed at improving translational immunology. Their findings demonstrate a crucial variable leading rodent laboratory research astray, which may bear responsibility for several failed human clinical drug trials. […]

One of the Most Terrifying Predators You Know Used to be a Vegetarian By Kristina Klosowski, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Source: Pixabay The crocodile is one of the oldest creatures on the planet. For over 200 million years they have roamed the earth, surviving mass extinctions and outliving the dinosaurs. With their eerie ability to lay

Why Carrots Are Orange: The Domestication of Your Favorite Healthy Snack By Jason M. Denoncourt, Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, 2023 Photo credit: Gabriel Mzaouakk The common name for wild carrots is Queen Anne’s Lace. With its illustrious, white summer flowers and pale, branching root systems, this subspecies hardly resembles everyone’s favorite healthy snack. Yet, over numerous generations

The STEM of Their Interest: The Lit Review Does Come Through and Emily Navarrete in the Williams Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry 2019 Navarrete fixes DNA, bound to a small metal disc, onto the AFM. This is the final of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research

Gasdermin and the illusive inflammasome By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry, 2019 Source: Shutterstock This piece was originally published as part of Issue 40: Wonder. There’s more than one way that a cell can kill itself. The standard version of cell suicide, apoptosis, is happening constantly within our bodies. When a cell detects damage, harmful mutations, or

The STEM of Their Interest: iLOV E. coli featuring Trina Hong and the Lewis Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry 2019 This is the second of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research labs. This piece was originally published as part of our Summer 2018 series. The

The STEM of Their Interest: The Machine Learning Learning Machine, Biruk Abreha in the Lopez Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry, 2019 This is the third of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research labs. This piece was originally published as part of our Summer 2018 series.

The STEM of Their Interest: Making the Right Moves featuring Abby Cahill and the Action Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry, 2019 Source: Shutterstock This is the first of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research labs. This piece was originally published as part of our Summer

More Iron in a Biofilm’s Diet By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry, 2019 Source: Shutterstock Biofilms are the name of the game in the Chai Lab at Northeastern University, and iron is shaking up the rules. Dr. Yunrong Chai and his team recently published an article in Nature Communications on their novel discoveries surrounding biofilm formation. Biofilms