Cynthia McCormick Hibbert, Author at News @ Northeastern

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Rapid rise in monkeypox spurs calls for better tests, more vaccine doses

Several Northeastern University professors call for a more robust response to the latest virus spreading in the U.S. and Europe and beyond.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert August 4, 2022

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The science behind President Biden's 'rebound COVID'

With 10% of Paxlovid patients rebounding, should length of antiviral course be extended? Northeastern University professors weigh in.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert August 2, 2022

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Pink Sauce, viral TikTok condiment, leaves bad taste in mouth of Northeastern food safety expert

Did the creator spoil her chance of success by going to market too soon with a prototype that went viral on social media? Northeastern’s Darin Detwiler warns of serious safety hazards connected to the “cottage food industry.”

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 28, 2022

Northeastern's Life Sciences Testing Center is helping Boston biotech develop best practices for monkeypox testing

Jared Auclair’s lab is gearing up to help protect the U.S. from emerging pathogens with a new focus on biosurveillance. The likely first step? Testing samples collected at airports and other places of entry for monkeypox.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 27, 2022

Shark Week, the ‘Jaws effect’ and how more great whites in the water are changing human behavior

From Cape Cod to Long Island and along the Atlantic Coast, the burgeoning shark population is keeping swimmers closer to the beach and leaving surfers apprehensive. Life on the ocean shore has changed with recent shark attacks, like the one in which a boogie boarder was killed off Cape Cod in Massachusetts in 2018.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 21, 2022

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Can infrastructure and tourism endure triple-digit temperatures, extreme weather during ‘danger season’?

“We’re going to keep breaking records.” In a world where Londoners bake with no AC and floods close a national park, what do we need to pull us through a summer of heat waves, droughts, heavy rains and wildfires?

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 21, 2022

Northeastern bioengineering professor Jeff Ruberti and former Northeastern University graduate and Ph.D. Jeff Paten study the healing process on the tissue of a rat bone in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

Torn rotator cuff or ligament? Northeastern team could speed your recovery

A Northeastern University professor who founded a spinoff called BrilliantStrings Therapeutics with a former NU graduate student says their new approach to healing could speed up soft tissue repairs and revolutionize rehabilitative medicine

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 15, 2022

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The teeny, tiny ticks that cause the most Lyme disease are out

The nymphal deer ticks that are out now are less likely to carry the pathogens that cause Lyme disease than the adult ticks, but they are so hard to spot—and therefore remove—they are responsible for most cases of human infection. Prevention is key.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 12, 2022

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As a female trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell is not an aberration

The lengths socialite and convicted trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell went to to procure young women for Jeffrey Epstein shocked the world. But the U.N. says women are well represented globally among sex trafficking offenders, as well as making up the majority of victims. Unlike the case with Maxwell, poverty is often a driver.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 8, 2022

Andrew Caratenuto, who studies mechanical engineering, tests cooling performance under solar simulator on a scaled down building in the Mugar Life Sciences Building on Tuesday July 5, 2022. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern researchers design cooling paper that might lessen need for AC

Engineering professor Yi Zheng and Ph.D. student Andrew Caratenuto say the product is capable of reducing the midday temperature of buildings by as much as 10 degrees.

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 7, 2022

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