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YSP 2024 – Open for Applications

Northeastern University

This 6 week summer research program will run from June 24 to August 1 and will involve research in various fields of STEM such as chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical sciences, computer engineering, chemical engineering, and bioengineering with faculty and graduate student mentors.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

Futurum

Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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A Look Into Biotechnology

STEMe

Biotechnologists can pick from a wide range of topics within biotechnology to study and places to pursue a career such as small startups, pharmaceutical companies, and government research agencies. These companies can develop new treatment options for rare and complex diseases, as well as genetic tests to better identify inherited diseases.

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The Billion-Dollar MoleculeA book summary

Smore Science

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE BOOK “The Billion Dollar Molecule” by Barry Werth is a non-fiction book that chronicles the rise of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology startup, from its inception in 1989 to the successful development of its first drug, VX-478, in 2000. Biotech startups are high-risk ventures.

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How can data management tools help us discover new treatments for a chronic disease?

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Linda and Megan hope that their work will continue to support researchers with the goals of understanding the biology of ME/CFS and developing new treatments. The goal is to learn about the biology of a disease and to identify new treatments or biomarkers. proteins) to better understand how they function.

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Building and training human tendons in the lab

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Bioengineering — the application of engineering principles to the fields of medicine and biology. It involves taking the principles of biology and the tools of. Developing pharmaceuticals from biological origins, such as vaccines. TALK LIKE A… BIOENGINEER. Building medical imaging technology or disease diagnostic devices.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.