Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams calls the decision “extraordinary.” It means the good news for young people is that if you are lucky enough to get an internship, now you are also likely to get paid. But businesses might decide that interns are not worth the expense. “I think it may have a negative […]

“The work really highlights that mammals don’t completely lack the ability to regenerate—it’s just that the correct developmental signaling is not turned on,” said James Monaghan, a regeneration biologist at Northeastern University who was not involved with the study. “It shows for first time how similar mammalian digit regeneration is to amphibian limb regeneration.”  

‘Really striking’ “It’s a fantastic paper,” says James Monaghan, a regeneration biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “It’s really striking that the cellular mechanisms and signalling pathways, like Wnt and FGF, all seem to be the same as those in salamanders.” It seems likely that these mechanisms will also apply to humans and other […]

Vapour–liquid–solid route and its variants are routinely used for scalable synthesis of semiconducting nanowires, yet the fundamental growth processes remain unknown. Here we employ atomic-scale computations based on model potentials to study the stability and growth of gold-catalysed silicon nanowires. Equilibrium studies uncover segregation at the solid-like surface of the catalyst particle, a liquid AuSi droplet, and a silicon-rich droplet–nanowire interface […]

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Salem) yesterday touted their bill to prevent the federal student loan interest rate from doubling next month and let students, for one year, pay the lower rate major banks do — though experts say the proposal would have no effect on the economy or the soaring […]

Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at the Northeastern University School of Law, said such a finding could have a far-reaching effect on future lawsuits. “This is huge,” Gottlieb said. “This really makes Massachusetts the most attractive state at this point and time to represent past victims of the tobacco industry […]

US Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative John Tierney rallied Northeastern University students Monday to speak out against a looming interest rate hike on student loans. If Congress fails to act by July 1, the rate on federally subsidized Stafford loans, need-based funds for undergraduates, would double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. With debate over student […]

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About 6 years ago, I was appointed the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health just as the state’s groundbreaking health care legislation was on the verge of being implemented. Certain things we clearly anticipated. The Massachusetts Medicaid Program (known as Mass Health) would surely expand its eligibility criteria so that a few hundred thousand more residents could enroll. The country’s first insurance exchange—the Connector—would be […]

Professors at Northeastern University in Boston examined 42 neighborhoods in 12 U.S. cities in 2010 and found that housing costs near rail stops increased after light-rail service started in many markets. “A new transit station can set in motion a cycle of unintended consequences in which core transit users…are priced out in favor of higher-income, […]

But local Pittsburgh politics aside, large non-profit health systems are getting new attention from city and state tax officials across the country facing budget crises. “The fact is hospitals are coming under more scrutiny,” says Gary Young, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “The city’s willingness to take on a […]

In fact, many of the most infamous violent attacks have been acts committed by individuals, not by groups. Think the Oklahoma City bombing, the first World Trade Center attack, the underwear bomber who was thwarted, and the countless campus and school shootings that have claimed the lives of many. All of these acts were plotted, […]