In June, researchers at Northeastern University discovered how axolotl flesh cells at the site of an injury respond to retinoic acid, a molecule similar to the retinol in many skin creams.

“From an institutional perspective, I get it, you’re excited about growth,” said Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University who has written about Americans who convert to Russian Orthodoxy. “But when that growth comes with violent political tendencies, that is not good and it has to be checked.”

Northeastern University Criminologist James Alan Fox, in comments to Boston 25 News: “The homeless are vulnerable. They are easy targets. They are defenseless. And when they are killed, or disappear, we just don’t have the same response. 

Yet the narrow focus of the criminal investigations may disappoint those expecting damning new revelations about Epstein’s associates. “What’s crucial [in these cases] is what happened to the women, and not what people happen to be connected to Epstein,” says Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University.

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

“We’re likely a few weeks out from things getting really serious, and that means now is the time to get vaccinated, because it takes a couple of weeks for full protection,” said Sam Scarpino, a public health expert at Northeastern University.

Jeremy Paul, a law professor and former dean of Northeastern University’s School of Law, agreed, telling HuffPost this is a “real possibility.” “I think it is naive to expect that the Trump administration will release any information that’s damaging to President Trump,” Paul said, unless it’s done “inadvertently.”

“We now have AWS, Azure and Cloudflare outages in the span of a month,” said David Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “That’s a very large portion of the biggest cloud providers in the world.”