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A New $500 Million Fund Is Trying to Eliminate the Common Cold

“Back of the envelope, Phase I and Phase II clinical trials are going to cost $20 to $30 million” per drug, estimates Samuel Scarpino, director of AI + life sciences at Northeastern University and a professor in the practice of health and computer sciences (who is not involved with Intercept).
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The ByHeart botulism outbreak is over. As the FDA searches for the cause, these babies are still sick.

“We are no longer talking about a single event,” Darin Detwiler, food policy professor at Northeastern University, wrote in an email. “We are talking about a pattern. ” Detwiler’s son died in a multistate outbreak of Ashaan receives feedings through his G-tube every two to three hours.
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This summer’s must-read is a warning about Trump

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
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Democracy has a listening problem. These AI tools could actually help

Beth Simone Noveck is the author of REBOOT: AI and The Race To Save Democracy (2026). A professor at Northeastern University, she directs The Burnes Center for Social Change and The Governance Lab
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Mike Wankum, longtime meteorologist, is retiring after two decades at WCVB-TV

WCVB was one of three newsrooms in the country that participated in a pilot program from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project, which placed a digital content producer in its newsroom. 

Jerry Moriarty, Painter Whose Brushstrokes Elevated Comics, Is Dead at 88

“There’s a kind of stillness in his work,” Hillary Chute, a professor at Northeastern University and a scholar of graphic narratives, said in an interview. “So you enter it as a story, and it has psychological depth, but also the kinds of composition that you would see in paintings.”
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AI models’ values are very different from most people’s

Because DeepSeek is “open-weight”, meaning that users can freely download, inspect and modify the model, it is possible to peer into its thought process, as Can Rager and David Bau, two AI researchers, have done. 
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The new mandatory hydration breaks at the World Cup continue to cause frustration

Dr. Gregory Waryasz, the head orthopedist for Northeastern University, says cramping due to dehydration is very common in these games, but there are other bigger concerns.
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AI Is Already Reshaping US Politics at Every Level

“This is the first AI election from a substantive perspective,” said Beth Simone Noveck, director of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University. “It’s front and center in the substance of the conversation.”
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Record profits, terrible service: something’s got to give for US consumersv

No wonder consumers feel so squeezed, disrespected and preyed upon. As a result, they are becoming “reactive”, said Alexander DePaoli, a Northeastern University marketing professor who studies consumer anger. They’re starting to see brands as “a rival or an adversary” and are trying to beat them at their own game.
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A Plan to Sell Artifacts From the Titanic Faces Us Government Opposition

Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston who specializes in public interest advocacy, said rules on the display and sale of Titanic artifacts are intended to preserve the wreckage for the benefit of the public, and so it can’t be “picked up by billionaires for further display of their […]
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Planned auction of Titanic artifacts including personal belongings faces U.S. government pushback

Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston who specializes in public interest advocacy, said rules on the display and sale of Titanic artifacts are intended to preserve the wreckage for the benefit of the public, and so it can’t be “picked up by billionaires for further display of their […]