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New Center for Bioinnovation combines AI-driven analytical tools with industry opportunities

by Schuyler Velasco
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Science & Technology

Breakthrough ALS research: Free tool from Northeastern scientists could revolutionize drug development

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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What is ‘gain of function’? Why scientists are divided about the risk and benefits of experimenting with deadly viruses

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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Fungal disease that poses threat to sick people in health care settings likely to continue to spread, Northeastern biotechnology expert says

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
A nurse dressed in personal protective equipment swabs the nose of a patient with a COVID-19 test
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New highly transmissible COVID-19 subvariant won’t swamp US hospitals, Northeastern experts predict

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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‘We are in a much better place.’ Why experts predict a milder winter for COVID-19

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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How COVID-19 colliding with flu season and surge of RSV created ‘tripledemic’

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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Rapid rise in monkeypox spurs call for better tests, more vaccine doses

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
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Northestern’s Life Sciences Testing Center is helping a Boston biotech company develop best practices for monkeypox testing

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days.
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Experts weigh in: Is monkeypox the next COVID-19? Here’s what we know.

by Ian Thomsen
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Pooled testing can make COVID-19 surveillance more efficient. But is it accurate?

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki
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COVID-19 isn’t going away. But now we know how to live with it.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki