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Here’s what it takes to test a COVID-19 vaccine with clinical trials

In last week’s presidential debate, President Donald Trump claimed that a COVID-19 vaccine is only weeks away in the United States—a timeline that is at odds with some of the top scientists in his administration. Mansoor Amiji, University Distinguished Professor in pharmaceutical sciences and chemical engineering at Northeastern, explains why vaccines take so long to develop and distribute.

Northeastern researcher is just happy to be reunited with axolotls as campus reopens

James Monaghan, an associate professor of biology, wants to find out how to improve healing therapies for people by studying the axolotl, a peculiar salamander with some of the most powerful abilities on the planet to repair and regrow injured body parts. Six months after the pandemic forced his lab to pause, Monaghan and his team are back at it. “That was the longest I’d gone without interacting with an axolotl since my first day of graduate school,” he says.

The coronavirus might have weak spots. Machine learning could help find them.

What makes SARS-CoV-2 so infectious? The answer is in its proteins. Mary Jo Ondrechen and Penny Beuning, professors of chemistry and chemical biology, are using machine learning to investigate these proteins and begin to understand how to slow the spread of the virus.

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Here’s what it takes to test a COVID-19 vaccine with clinical trials

Northeastern researcher is just happy to be reunited with axolotls as campus reopens

The coronavirus might have weak spots. Machine learning could help find them.