Northeastern University Biology Graduate Program

Congratulations on the great news coming from the Chai Lab!

http://www.northeastern.edu/cos/2016/12/yunrong-chai-nsf-career-award/

For Northeastern researchers, small microbes bring big success - College of Science Though his career has focused on life at the microscopic scale, Assistant Professor of Biology Yunrong Chai knows that his field of microbiology has enormous implications for society.

Dr. Javier Apfeld, one of the newest additions to the Biology Department faculty, recently had a paper published in Nature; take a read if you haven't yet!

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16550.html

The temporal scaling of Caenorhabditis elegans ageing : Nature : Nature Publishing Group The process of ageing makes death increasingly likely, involving a random aspect that produces a wide distribution of lifespan even in homogeneous populations. The study of this stochastic behaviour may link molecular mechanisms to the ageing process that determines lifespan. Here, by collecting hig…

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