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David Medina, a doctoral student at Northeastern, is using bacteria to produce nanoparticles that are particularly effective at killing whatever type of cell was used to create them, including strains of bacteria that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
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Northeastern University researchers use nanoparticles made by bacteria to fight antibiotic-resistant infections like MRSA

A model of a molecule.
Science & Technology

Northeastern researchers team up with Kebotix to improve light-based cancer treatments

Go the extra mile to help family, friends, and colleagues, Bob Davis, a venture capitalist who co-founded one of the internet’s first search engines, told graduates of Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business on Wednesday. “You will be amazed at how your career will fly as people take notice,” he said. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Bob Davis, a venture capitalist who co-founded search engine Lycos, urged D’Amore-McKim School of Business graduates to go the extra mile

A soft gripper attachment holds a fake fish in Taşkın Padır's lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Business

Northeastern University researchers are designing the future of work, starting with collaborative robots for processing seafood

Science & Technology

Northeastern researchers are using machine learning algorithms to predict the function of enzymes from their amino acids

Picture of an iPhone display.
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AirDrop is making your iPhone vulnerable to attackers

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 30, 2018, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset. AP Photo/Sam Mednick
Health

Northeastern University researchers are working with the World Health Organization to stop the spread of Ebola

Sarah Ostadabbas, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Shuangjun Liu use a manikin to test their camera setup. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University
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Northeastern University researchers are using machine learning to monitor sleeping positions

Northeastern University’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory receives capital grant from Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

Science & Technology

Northeastern University researchers are mapping the brain signals of female rats to find more effective treatments for human women with PTSD

This salamander can regenerate limbs like Deadpool. Can it teach us to do the same?

Society & Culture

Northeastern University researchers are designing airport security systems to scan travelers as they walk past