Real Talk about NUTalk By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016 Last Thursday night saw Raytheon Theater full of students, faculty, and even members of the Boston community gathered for an unusual event — NU Talk 2016, a TED-style event hosted by Northeastern’s Biology Club. The event began with introductions by Ollie Cervantes, the Vice President of the Biology […]

High Protein Electronics: Students make Biological Nanowires By David Rosenberg, Chemical Engineering, 2020 This summer, a team of students at the University of Kent in England developed a method for fabricating nanowires using bacteria. The project, presented at the International Genetically Engineered Machines Jamboree this September, aims to increase sustainability in nanowire manufacturing. It was

Great Scott! How Accurately Back to the Future Part II Predicted the World We Live In By Katie Hudson, Marine Biology, 2017 On Wednesday October 21, 2015, Marty McFly arrived from the distant past of 1985 to a world of flying cars, hoverboards, cyborgs, and dehydrated Pizza Hut pizza. The film Back to the Future Part

HIV, AIDS, and How PrEP Can Help By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016 In Issue 12, Hessu Kim reported on a new method for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Since 2011, the method discussed has come into general practice. For our retrospective issue, all of us at NUSci thought that updating this article would be worthwhile. Human

Review: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder By Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017 If you are seeking to be both inspired and incredibly humbled by your insignificance, there are a lot of things you can do, but few in my experience accomplish this as well as Tracy Kidder does with his book Mountains Beyond Mountains. The

Profile of Professor Lee Makowski By Sam LaRussa Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is currently affecting somewhere around five million Americans. Despite its prevalence, very little is known biochemically about the nature of Alzheimer’s, and, because of this, treatment options are currently nonexistent and hard to research.

Progress on Parkinson’s By Alexis Stefano, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017 At first glance, Parkinson’s disease and Chronic Myelogenous leukemia (CML) seem to have nothing in common. One is a neurodegenerative disease that causes a patient to experience tremors and loss of cognitive function, while the other is a slow moving blood and bone cancer. Parkinson’s causes

Jurassic Possible? By Jordyn Hanover, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017 In 1993, scientists were able to extract the DNA of an extinct, 120 million year old animal from a fossilized insect inside a piece of amber. These scientists then used this DNA to create a theme park where humans could view and interact with over a dozen

Ruh-Roh! The World Just Got Spookier By Jameson O’Reilly, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering 2019 During the weeks leading up to Halloween, everything seems to get spookier. This year was no exception, as a team of scientists led by Ronald Hanson of Delft University proved “spooky action at a distance” with much greater certainty than any