“The idea that CMS can’t use its authority in this way unless Congress is explicit is really extraordinary and really would unwind just enumerable health and safety measures that regulate health care,” said Wendy Parmet, faculty director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, noting the safety protocols […]

“In the same way that a seed has a set of genetic instructions to produce a tree, we want to provide biological cells with a set of genetic instructions that program them to make material structures with prescribed properties,” co-author Neel Joshi, a chemist at Northeastern University, tells Neel V. Patel for the Daily Beast.

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined host Sean Corcoran on Morning Edition to discuss the expungement process.

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor, describes the loss of the Sun-Advocate in Massachusetts as “a grim picture but not nearly as catastrophic as in some parts of the country.” After all, he told me, there are other news organizations nearby, including the Daily Times Chronicle in Woburn and WickedLocal.com, a digital site run by Gannett that […]

Such a waiver would “certainly help to override Merck and Pfizer’s patent and data protection rights in one fell swoop, reducing the need for country-by-countries solutions, including compulsory licenses,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst at Health GAP, an advocacy group focusing on equity in […]

During the mayoral campaign, Wu released a research paper about fare-free bus service pilot programs in partnership with Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. The paper cited targeting federal and state grant funds and mentioned redirecting the nearly $1 billion set aside for the MBTA’s fare collection system upgrade to fund fare-free service.

The European Commission suggested a ‘targeted waiver’ on compulsory licenses. But the move was derided because waivers are not needed for countries to issue such licenses. The idea is “basically meaningless” and a public relations “stunt,” said Brook Baker, a Northeastern University professor who specializes in access to medicines and intellectual property and is a […]

The European Commission suggested a ‘targeted waiver’ on compulsory licenses. But the move was derided because waivers are not needed for countries to issue such licenses. The idea is “basically meaningless” and a public relations “stunt,” said Brook Baker, a Northeastern University professor who specializes in access to medicines and intellectual property and is a […]

Once they reach an agreement, there will likely still be billions left to be spent in the months or even years ahead, when the state could also see even more extra cash. Through October, Massachusetts had collected $723 million more in tax revenues than it was expecting through those four months of the fiscal year, […]

“You close down the boundary with Africa, then you close the boundary with Belgium, then you close the boundary with somewhere else,” said Alessandro Vespignani, a Northeastern University professor who has studied travel restrictions from early 2020 and advised government agencies in recent days on responses to the latest variant. “But every time you close […]

A material like a microbial ink has more grandiose ambitions, according to Neel Joshi, a synthetic biologist at Northeastern University and an author on the new paper. Such inks are an expanding focus of the field of engineered living materials. Unlike structures cast from concrete or plastic, living systems would be autonomous, adaptive to environmental […]

Martin will be succeeded by Mary B. Strother, who joins Northeastern from Attorney General Maura Healey’s office, where she was a first assistant attorney general. Strother will join Northeastern in the new role on Jan. 3.