But to lead a national and global conversation about gene editing, scientists will need help not only from their colleagues in the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts, but also from journalists and philanthropists. Informed public discussion about gene editing is not possible without high-quality, sustained reporting from journalists with deep knowledge of the subject.

“Home sales can be expected to continue to rise in many markets that have yet to recover from the crash a decade back,” said Oscar Brookins, an associate professor of economics at Northeastern University. “Those markets that have already recovered (primarily the coastal markets) will probably continue growth and attenuate the existent gap between themselves.”

SearchDataManagement caught up with Sherman, founder of Athena IT Solutions, to survey the data landscape. Long at work in the field of data warehousing, Sherman also teaches classes on the data integration process and data architecture at Northeastern University in Boston. In addition, he recently led sessions on data architecture at a Dataversity conference dedicated to […]

“Compensation based on fees is worrisome,” said Linlin Ma, an economist at Northeastern University and a co-author of a recent paper that examined incentives for mutual fund managers. “That means that the portfolio manager will spend more time increasing fees and the result is worse performance.”

New Year’s Eve is a time to set goals: to eat better, to save more money, to work harder, to drink less. It’s Day 1 on the road to a “new you.” But this road, as we all know, is difficult to follow. Humans are notoriously bad at resisting temptation, especially (as research confirms) if […]

This focus on body counts is a lurid necessity to assess trends in public safety. But increases or declines in annual totals can be illusory. There are thousands, yes thousands, of shootings each year in Chicago. The difference between being wounded and killed can come down to how swiftly a victim gets to the hospital. […]

Max Abrahms, a counterterrorism expert at Northeastern University, said, “The likelihood of an Islamic State-inspired attack over the holidays in the West is pretty high.” Abrahms noted that the Islamic extremist group wants to prove its relevance after severe battlefield losses in Iraq and Syria.

When it comes to science and technology, there has long been a tension between the desire to single out an individual inventor and the reality that breakthroughs usually result from an incremental, collective process. “Science likes origin stories,” says Kara Swanson, a law professor and historian of science at Northeastern University.

“When people think workplace homicide, they think disgruntled employee going on a rampage. That’s actually a relatively rare form,” says James Alan Fox, professor of criminology at Northeastern University. “The overwhelming majority of workplace homicides, back in the ’80s and ’90s, as well as today, are basically robberies and assaults by customers — not coworkers.”

“The opioid crisis, really broadly, is a symptom of these larger problems, these fissures in American society,” said Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. The timing of his report’s publication Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health with the passage of tax bill was coincidental, but Beletsky called […]

Where do I get this outlandish-sounding prediction? From Daniel Kim, a social epidemiologist and professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Kim has spent more than a decade studying the effects of income inequality on public health, and recently published a study comparing the impacts of a 2016 Trump campaign tax plan with one proposed during […]

“This is when families gather. This is when people are cooking in the kitchen. This is when young people are cooking with their parents or grandparents,” said Darin Detwiler, a professor and food safety expert at Northeastern University.