Prof Kim Lewis and Dr Philip Strandwitz, from the antimicrobial discovery centre at Northeastern University in the US, commented: “It may seem surprising that a member of the human microbiota – the community of bacteria that inhabits the body – produces an antibiotic. “However, the microbiota is composed of more than a thousand species, many […]

“I have mixed feelings about this,” says Kim Lewis, an antibiotics researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “If more money is going into the general area of antibiotics, that’s a good thing. But I’m really surprised that we are getting another influx of funds into development rather than into discovery.” The main problem, says […]

Security researchers (and indeed, law enforcement) have worked out a number of theoretical ways to attack Tor. This might involve taking over a significant number of nodes, which are just computers and servers around the world, to crack anonymity. Or it may involve simply monitoring the time that connections enter and exit Tor as a […]

The really important contribution of this study is not lugdunin itself, says microbiologist Kim Lewis of Northeastern University, but rather the new approach for finding antibiotic-producing bacteria within our own bodies. “The reason we ran out of antibiotics in the first place is because most of them came from soil bacteria and they make up […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written at length about prosecutorial misconduct, told The Huffington Post that “beneath the patina of collegiality,” Monday’s opinion struck him as “a cry for the higher court to look anew at Solberg and for the legislature to revisit that section of the code.” The current […]

But it all depends on whether federal bureaucrats adequately police, and enforce, those squirrelly rules—a task they have not excelled at in the past. In a 2014 book that looked at dozens of past mergers and acquisitions, Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka found that agency enforcement actions are “not demonstrably effective” and “do not […]

One of the few people who can really understand what Hillary Clinton is experiencing as she’s about to become the Democratic party’s presidential nominee is a former governor of Massachusetts: Michael Dukakis. He was the party’s unsuccessful nominee in 1988. Dukakis travels to Philadelphia later this week for the end of the convention. We caught up […]

Highly targeted and personalised ads may not translate to higher profits, according to research published earlier this year by professor Pedro Gardete at Stanford Graduate School and Yakov Bart, a professor at Northeastern University, Massachusetts. In some cases, they claim, the most effective strategy is for consumers to keep information private and for businesses to […]

Last week, more than 100 Massachusetts government employees — mostly anonymous bureaucrats — learned their names had appeared in an unexpected place: on an Islamic State “hit list.” ISIS cyber-affiliates have released a number of similar lists in other states over the last few months — naming police officers, county board members, even ordinary citizens […]

The first came in the same 60 Minutes interview, when Hillary said she was not “standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette.” It was a relatively innocuous pop culture reference, but when she later told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” it started to sound […]

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a lightning rod for criticism from various healthcare stakeholders, including physicians, since the law’s passage six years ago. With the upcoming presidential election likely to alter the landscape of “Obamacare”—from simple tweaks by Democrats to outright attempted repeal by Republicans—Medical Economics asked healthcare policy experts and our readers […]

“Whenever there is a mass casualty or terrorist attack around the world these days, the Islamic State is almost always the leading suspect,” said Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University professor and terror expert. “It was perceived from the start. It was believed to be multiple attackers spread throughout the city of Munich taking aim at […]