Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and New Jersey Institute of Technology developed new software that integrates a variety of information from a single cell, allowing researchers to see how one change in a cell can lead to several others and providing important clues for pinpointing the exact causes of genetic-based diseases.

The findings were published by Nature Communications.

NJIT students Aliya Laliwala and Mrunmayi Joshi have been selected to be part of this year’s Governor’s STEM Scholars class, which includes 128 scholars from 20 New Jersey counties — the program’s largest cohort ever.

The Governor’s STEM Scholars program was created to engage the next generation of research and innovation leaders in the state’s vast STEM economy early. Sixty-four percent of the class identify as female and 83% as students of color. When they graduate in May 2023, they will join an alumni cohort of over 700 Scholars.

NJIT computer science alumna Hang Nguyen, the first in her family to attend college, started her full-time career as a Google software engineer based on her ability to quickly absorb new skills. 

Nguyen grew up in central Vietnam, learned English and the outdated Pascal programming language in a school for gifted children, and ultimately chose to pursue her dream of not only obtaining a college degree but doing so in the United States.

We've all wished that some people on social media would use a fake news detector before sharing, and now an NJIT computer science student has built one that works pretty well.

Natalia Smith, a junior from Newark, said her fake news detector application has performed with up to 90 percent accuracy in evaluating COVID-related tweets for truthfulness.

An unpatched security bug in most web browsers allows hackers to monitor specific site visitors and leave scarce evidence of a digital trail, researchers with New Jersey Institute of Technology revealed.

The bug can be exploited with well-crafted code that can, for example, wait for a targeted person to view an embarrassing website, record data about their clicks and share that data with those who wish to use it against the visitor.