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Regulation and Science: Biosimilars Waiting to Debut in the US Editorial by Josh Sternberg, Editor-in-Chief at Northeastern Univeristy Political Review The pharmaceutical industry is experiencing tectonic shifts, with widespread effects on the traditional business models of pharmaceutical companies. Drying pipelines, pricing pressures, health care reform, and rising costs of research and development are forcing pharmaceutical companies […]

Profiles in Innovation: Dr. Ross Cagan If you were to pass Dr. Ross Cagan on the street, you would peg him as a sophisticated lead guitarist in an underground band before you pegged him as one of the world’s foremost cancer researchers. Maybe that has something to do with his past life as a rockstar in

The US Cares 22.3% Less About Cancer If you’re reading this, and you’re male, your chance of developing cancer during your lifetime is 44%. If you’re female your odds are slightly better at a whopping 38%. For people planning to die of something other than a cancer, like a Viagra-induced heart attack in a retirement home,

Should GMOs be labeled? By Gwen Schanker Whether organisms should be genetically modified has been a subject of debate since the 1970s, when scientists Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer created the first recombinant DNA organism and transgenic plants emerged as the newest breakthrough in biotechnology. Genetic modification of crops allows for greater yields at a lower

STAP in the Name of Love — The Dangers of Scientific Overreach By Gwen Schanker, Journalism and Biology, 2017 Science is constantly evolving. Every day, new phenomena, techniques and ideas are discovered and explored. Scientists live and work in a continually shifting environment, where with the right amount of resources, research and testing, they can investigate any

When Governments Disagree about Pharmaceuticals By Pooja Nagarajan, Drug Regulatory Affairs Graduate Student, 2015 The clashes between several federal agencies involved in the regulation of food and drugs has time and again proven to be a matter of concern, raising questions about the need for a more unanimous system of regulation and jurisdiction. This has

Cosmic Inflation in Question By Joshua Timmons, Biology, 2016 Revived after 34 years of collecting dust, the theory of cosmic inflation has been put on life support amid scrutiny by fellow scientists. Raphael Flauger, a theoretical physicist at NYU, has come forth arguing researchers underestimated the contribution of galactic dust to the polarization used as evidence

Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming Lunar Eclipses By Gwen Schanker, Journalism, 2017 On April 15, a total lunar eclipse took place and set off a tetrad of eclipses for 2014–2015. Whether you’re an aspiring astronomer or a student who’ll probably be up late anyway, here’s what you may have seen on Tuesday night,

Detecting Ripples from the Birth of our Universe By Claudia Geib, Journalism & Environmental Science, 2015 It’s not often that physicists make headlines. Thursday, March 27 was the exception. At a seemingly out-of-the-blue press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, researchers from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) experiment set the media abuzz