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A cure for sleeping sickness?
Tse tse flies carry the t. brucei parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness. Photo via Flickr. A few years ago chemistry and chemical biology professor Mike Pollastri met a researcher name...
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Story behind the story: Carla Mattos
Photo by Brooks Canaday. There’s always a story behind the story. When I talk to researchers about new papers or grants, I ask way more questions than I can possibly cover in the body of a...
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Guest post: Opening up drug discovery for neglected diseases
Chemsitry and chemical biology associate professor Michael Pollastri uses a drug repurposing approach to identify new treatments for neglected tropical diseases. Photo by Brooks Canaday. This post was...
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In the lab: Mike Pollastri
Chemistry and chemical biology associate professor Michael Pollastri has several undergraduate and graduate students working in his lab. They mix and create compounds, test whether those compounds are...
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The secret of a squid’s ability to change colors may lie in an unexpected...
In the blink of an eye, squid can change from sandy brown to vibrant red or ripple with bright metallic rainbows. Their color-changing abilities (and those of their fellow cephalopods, octopus and...
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Northeastern researchers are using machine learning algorithms to predict the...
If you drink beer, eat cheese, or enjoy a good sourdough, you can thank enzymes for speeding up the chemical reactions that make these foods possible. But these complicated molecules have more to...
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Our plastic pollution problem may have more significant consequences than we...
Plastics are everywhere. They’re in our water, in our food, and even in the air we breathe. They show up in remote glaciers and deep in the ocean. And plastic is largely made up of carbon, which is...
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Researchers discover promising new catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells
Hydrogen fuel cells hold a lot of promise as sustainable and eco-friendly energy sources to power transportation by land, air and sea. But traditional catalysts used to drive chemical reactions in...
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